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The Art of the Possible
Booker T. Washington and Black Leadership in the United States, 1881-1925
- 230 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
The Art of the Possible
Booker T. Washington and Black Leadership in the United States, 1881-1925
About this book
First published in 2002. The Art of The Possible is a new study of the ideas and achievements of Booker T. Washington, the most influential African American leader of the period 1881-1915. Washington's program for racial uplift is assessed in the context of the key political, social and economic developments of his era, in a work which both incorporates original research and a systhesis of modern scholarship.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: African-American History, 1865–1925
- CHAPTER 2 The Lion and the Lamb: Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington
- CHAPTER 3 Roads Not Taken: Booker T. Washington as a Race Leader
- CHAPTER 4 As Separate as the Five Fingers: Booker T. Washington and the Age of Jim Crow
- CHAPTER 5 Realist or Reactionary? Booker T. Washington and the Great Migration
- CHAPTER 6 The Realist and the Dreamer? Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois
- CHAPTER 7 The Wizard and the Goat: Booker T. Washington, Ralph W. Tyler, and the National Negro Business League
- CHAPTER 8 The Sorcerer and the Apprentice: Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey
- CHAPTER 9 Booker T. Washington and African-American Autobiography
- CHAPTER 10 Booker T. Washington and African-American History: A Historiographical Perspective
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index