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Uncle Tom or new Negro?
African Americans reflect on Booker T. Washington and Up from slavery 100 years later
By Carroll, Rebecca & Washington, Booker T.
- ISBN
- 978-0-76791-955-5
- Publisher
- New York : Broadway Books/Harlem Moon, c2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 2006
With his famed Atlanta exposition address in 1895, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) succeeded the just-deceased Frederick Douglass as America�s national black spokesman. Carroll (editor in chief,Independent Film & Video Monthly ;Saving the Race: Conversations on Du Bois from a Collective Memoir of Souls ) reprints Washington�s 1901 autobiography,Up From Slavery , prefacing it with 20 contemporary perspectives on what exactly Washington�s legacy has been or should be. Her contributors discuss education, ethics, economics, identity, and community; they comment not merely on ex-slave Washington�s chosen path for blacks to take from slavery to freedom and his ra...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
