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Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington

Name: Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
Brand: Belknap Press
SKU: 9780674060371
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Contributors:

Robert J. Norrell

Publisher:

Belknap Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Historical, United States, Ethnic Studies

Book Topic:

20th Century, American

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Release Date:

2011-04-30

ISBN 13:

9780674060371

Weight:

1.82 lbs

Size:

9.13 x 6.13 x 1.33 inches

Pages:

528

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Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. A century ago, in the era of Jim Crow, Booker T. Washington pursued a different strategy to lift his people. In this compelling biography, Norrell reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. He urged black people to acquire economic independence and to develop the moral character that would ultimately gain them full citizenship. Although widely accepted as the most realistic way to integrate blacks into American life during his time, Washington's strategy has been disparaged since the 1960s.

The first full-length biography of Booker T. in a generation, Up from History recreates the broad contexts in which Washington worked: He struggled against white bigots who hated his economic ambitions for blacks, African-American intellectuals like W. E. B. Du Bois who resented his huge influence, and such inconstant allies as Theodore Roosevelt. Norrell details the positive power of Washington's vision, one that invoked hope and optimism to overcome past exploitation and present discrimination. Indeed, his ideas have since inspired peoples across the Third World that there are many ways to struggle for equality and justice. Up from History reinstates this extraordinary historical figure to the pantheon of black leaders, illuminating not only his mission and achievement but also, poignantly, the man himself.

About the Author
Norrell, Robert J.: - Robert J. Norrell is Professor of History and Bernadotte Schmitt Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee.

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