Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy

Name: Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
Director: William Greaves
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1982-05-31
Duration: 32 min

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Traces the life of Booker T. Washington, ex-slave, author, educator, and political leader, focusing on his stewardship of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Uses historic photographs, re-created vignettes, and interviews with contemporaries such as W.E.B. DuBois to present Washington's complex personality and his influence on southern life after the Civil War. Also examines his controversial policies of Black economic self-reliance and political accommodation

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