Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 3: 1889-95. Assistant Editors, Stuart B. Kaufman and Raymond W. Smock Volume 3

by Louis R. Harlan and Booker T. Washington

Washington's gradual rise to prominence as an educator, race leader, and shrewd political broker is revealed in this volume, which covers his career from May 1889 to September 1895, when he delivered the famous speech often called the Atlanta Compromise address. Much of the volume relates to Washington's role as principal of Tuskegee Institute, where he built a powerful base of operations for his growing influence with white philanthropists in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252004108
• ISBN13: 9780252004100
• Release Date: April 1974
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"