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9780815337232

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

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    9780815337232

  • ISBN10:

    081533723X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-10-12
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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

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