Booker T. Washington. Great Lives Observed.


Engaging study of the educator, orator, U.S. presidential advisor, and race leader, Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), the founder of the Tuskegee Institute (HBCU) in Alabama. Scholarly observations, Washington’s own writings and those of his contemporaries provide a three-fold perspective of this remarkable figure. Significant contributors include Carter G. Woodson (“The Father of Negro History”), Langston Hughes and Horace M. Bond and others.


Description: Booker T. Washington. Great Lives Observed.

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., (1969). 184 pages. First edition. Fine in publisher’s cloth in a Near Fine illustrated dust jacket.

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Price: $35.00

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