Booker T. Washington: The Life and Legacy

Duration: 32 min.

Creator: William Greaves Productions.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Traces the life of Booker T. Washington, emphasizing his leadership in education and politics, and the role he played in the establishment of Tuskegee Institute.

Complete Record: , A docu-drama on a highly controversial figure in American life. Booker T. Washington was the undisputed leader of Black America at the turn of the century. His policies of Black economic self-reliance and political accomodation to reactionary white power were debated nationwide. They brought him into conflict with other leaders of the Black community as well as liberal and progressive whites. Tuskegee Institute was a monument to his dynamism, enterprise and strategy for Black survival. , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.