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Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow
Booker T Washington Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow Author:Raymond W. Smock From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and race leader. But to historians and biographers of the last hundred years, Washington has often been described as an enigma, a man who rose to prominence because he offered a compromise with the white ... more »South: he was willing to trade civil rights for economic and educational advancement. Thus one historian called Washington's time the nadir of Negro life in America.« less