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Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute / Budd Bailey.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Primary sources of the civil rights movementPublisher: New York : Cavendish Square Publishing, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781502618726
  • 1502618729
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction: down freedom's road -- Early days -- The speech -- Opposite reactions -- Changing attitudes -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Further information -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.
Summary: "Booker T. Washington was an educated black man who was very influential in the transition in the United States from the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery to the election of President Barack Obama. He believed education was key in helping lift African Americans out of poverty and built the Tuskegee Institute to provide that education" -- Publisher.
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Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Biography Washingt B. B154 Available 33111008511426
Total holds: 0

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Booker T. Washington was an educated black man who was very influential in the transition in the United States from the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery to the election of President Barack Obama. He believed education was key in helping lift African Americans out of poverty and built the Tuskegee Institute to provide that education.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-61) and index.

Introduction: down freedom's road -- Early days -- The speech -- Opposite reactions -- Changing attitudes -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Further information -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.

"Booker T. Washington was an educated black man who was very influential in the transition in the United States from the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery to the election of President Barack Obama. He believed education was key in helping lift African Americans out of poverty and built the Tuskegee Institute to provide that education" -- Publisher.

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