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Booker T. Washington
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Booker T. Washington in American Memory by Kenneth M. HamiltonISBN: 9780252040771
Publication Date: 2017-02-01
This project examines the response to Booker T. Washington's death, analyzing the many ways in which both black and white Americans involved in the Yankee Protestant Ethic Movement honored or memorialized the great visionary. Hamilton reexamines Washington's influences, thereby producing a new understanding of his life. This book examines the ways that the memory of Washington and his works were cultivated and utilized by his contemporaries to promote racial consciousness.
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The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation by Michael B. BostonISBN: 9780813043197
Publication Date: 2010-08-29
Michael Boston offers a radical departure from other interpretations of Booker T. Washington by focusing on the latter's business ideas and practices. More specifically, Boston examines Washington as an entrepreneur, spelling out his business philosophy at great length and discussing the influence it had on black America. He analyzes the national and regional economies in which Washington worked and focuses on his advocacy of black business development as the key to economic uplift for African Americans.
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Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee 1901-1915 by Louis R. HarlanISBN: 9780195032024
Publication Date: 1983-04-28
Harlan reveals Washington's complex personality. This book chronicles the challenge Washington faced from W.E.B. Du Bois and other blacks, and shows how growing opposition forced him to change his methods of leadership just before his death in 1915.
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