Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915

2669 Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee 1901-1915, by Louis R. Harlan (read 18 Jan 1994) This book is not chronological, but I found it well worth reading. I had not heard of the beating Washington got in New York in 1911, and an entire chapter is devoted to that incident. It is a questionable affair and one wonders what he was doing at the building where the incident began. This book shows that after Wilson was elected in 1912 Booker became a little less sheep-like. Wilson was a white supremacist segregationist, and Washington had little to do with Booker then. I would like to go to Tuskegee, Ala., and see his school. I wonder what it is like today.

"The first volume of Louis R. Harlan's biography of Booker T. Washington, The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901, was published to wide acclaim and won the 1972 Bancroft Prize. This volume completes one of the most significant biographies of this generation. - from book jacket