Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was born a slave on a Virginia
farm. Later freed, he headed and developed the Tuskegee Institute
and became a leader in education. Widely considered a spokesman for
his people, he emphasized social concern in three books as well as
his autobiography.
Louis R. Harlan, born in Clay County, Mississippi, in 1922, is
Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park.
He is the author of Separate and Unequal (University of North
Carolina Press, 1958) and of a two-volume biography of Booker T.
Washington (Oxford University Press, 1972, 1983). He is the editor,
with Raymond W. Smock, of The Booker T. Washington Papers (13
vols., University of Illinois Press, 1972-84). He has been awarded
the Beveridge Prize, Bancroft Prize, and Pulitzer Prize for his
biography of Washington.
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