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.