Uncle Tom or New Negro? African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and up from SLAVERY 100 Years Later

Name: Uncle Tom or New Negro? African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and up from SLAVERY 100 Years Later
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ISBN: 9780767919555

ISBN-10: 0767919556

ISBN-13: 9780767919555

Edition: 2006

Authors: Rebecca Carroll

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On the ninetieth anniversary of Booker T. Washington's death comes a passionate, provocative dialogue on his complicated legacy, including the complete text of his classic autobiography, "Up from Slavery." Booker T. Washington was born a slave in 1858, yet roughly forty years later he had established the Tuskegee Institute. Befriended by a U.S. president and corporate titans, beloved and reviled by the black community, Washington was one of the most influential voices on the postslavery scene. But Washington's message of gradual accommodation was accepted by some and rejected by others, and, almost a century after his death, he is still one of the most controversial and misunderstood…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/10/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

A. L. Kennedy lives in Glasgow, Scotland.REBECCA CARROLL is the author of several books, including "Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls "and the award-winning "Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America," She lives in New York City with her husband, the sociologist Christopher Bonastia, and their son Kofi.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Dr. Bill E. Lawson, Philosophy Scholar



Elizabeth Gardner Hines, Writer/Great-Grandniece of A. G. Gaston



Ronald Walters, Director of the African American Leadership Institute



Lucenia Williams-Dunn, Mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama



Cleophus Thomas, Jr., Chairman and CEO of A. G. Gaston Corporation



Karen Hunter, Journalist/Radio Talk Show Personality



Avon Kirkland, Filmmaker



Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Author/Economist



Bakari Kitwana, Author



Debra Dickerson, Writer



Gregory S. Bell, Journalist/Author



Cora Daniels, Journalist/Author



Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Political Analyst



Ruby Sales, Founder and Executive Director of SpiritHouse



James Clingman, Author/Speaker



Jock Smith, Attorney, Cochran, Cherry, Givens, & Smith, PC, Tuskegee



Kathy Y. Wilson, Author/Journalist



John McWhorter, Author



Sharon Madison Polk, Businesswoman/Entrepreneur



John Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE