The Art of the Possible: Booker T. Washington and Black Leadership in the United States, 1881-1925

by Verney,Kevern J.

• ISBN13: 9780815337232
• ISBN10: 081533723X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Kevern Verney is Senior Lecturer in American History at Edge Hill College of Higher Education in England.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: African-American History, 1865-1925	1	(20)
The Lion and the Lamb: Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington	21	(14)
Roads Not Taken: Booker T. Washington as a Race Leader	35	(14)
As Separate as the Five Fingers: Booker T. Washington and the Age of Jim Crow	49	(18)
Realist or Reactionary? Booker T. Washington and the Great Migration	67	(12)
The Realist and the Dreamer? Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois	79	(16)
The Wizard and the Goat: Booker T. Washington. Ralph W. Tyler and the National Negro Business League	95	(16)
The Sorcerer and the Apprentice: Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey	111	(16)
Booker T. Washington and African-American Autobiography	127	(16)
Booker T. Washington and African-American History: A Historiographical Perspective	143	(18)
Notes	161	(32)
Bibliography	193	(18)
Index	211