Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674060377 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"An outstanding biography of a woefully neglected figure" according to Hoodlum. Definitive, balanced, thoroughly researched: This book is not just the best biography I have read of BTW, whose life and work I teach about in college classes, but also one of the best books I have read in years. It dares to question the reigning historiography--and it does so with sublime judiciousness. The points it makes about gaining ground today are. Up From Revisionism TS Lloyd My own views of Booker T. Washington have been shaped by the writings of W.E.B. Dubois and other recent scholars. Norrell's autobiography has helped to change my perspective. By viewing Washington from the environment and times he lived in, I came to understand why his actions were what they were. Growing up as a slave and a poor Southern rural freeman w. Lifting the Veil of History James W. Crawford This work by Professor Robert J. Norrell provides the reader a triple offering. You will, in the first place, find here a biography of Booker T. Washington. You will, secondly, review the times, cirumstances, opportunities and obstacles surrounding and shaping Washington's life. You will, lastly, encounter a courageous historian arguing BTW's seminal pla
Washington from the vantage point of the modern civil rights era, Robert J. A first-rate read. (Shelby Steele New York Times Book Review 2009-02-15)Robert J. Bledsoe in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, a darkly ironic sendup of Washington as a merciless pragmatist. (Jason L. (Clarence E. (Barbara Bamberger Scott Curled Up with a Good Book 2009-02-13)A fine new biography. But here we see the real man at his interminable labors: incessantly fund-raising for Tuskegee in the North, mapping out political strategy with liberal white philanthropists in Boston and New York, fighting with Northern black elites one day and with white nationalist Southerners the next, and then, back at Tuskegee, riding out on horseback in the early morning to micromanage the college's agricultural operations Washington understood that his people also dwelled inside a crucible. Norrell has provided us with a fascinating portr
Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. B. The first full-length biography of Booker T. E. Up from History reinstates this extraordinary historical figure to the pantheon of black leaders, illuminating not only his mission and achievement but also, poignantly, the man himself.. A century ago, in the era of Jim Crow, Booker T. Norrell details the positive power of Washington’s vision, one that invoked hope and optimism to overcome past exploitation and present discrimination. in a generation, Up from History recreates the broad contexts in which Washington worked: He struggled against white bigots who hated his economic ambitions for blacks, African-American intellectuals like W. Du Bois who resented his huge influence, and such inconstant allies as Theodore Roosevelt. He urged black people to acquire economic independence and to develop the moral
Robert J. Norrell is Professor of History and Bernadotte Schmitt Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee.