Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis R.

Louis R. Harlan first saw the Booker T. Washington Papers almost forty years ago, when they were still a vast unsorted collection of more than a million items stored in the bowels of the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. This vast collection represented the most voluminous historical record of any individual black American in our history, with the possible exception of the Papers.

Louis Rudolph Harlan was an American historian and academic whose two-volume biography of African-American educator and social leader Booker T. Washington was awarded the 1973 Bancroft Prize for the first volume as well as the 1984 Bancroft Prize and Pulitzer Prize for the second volume.

This book, an important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan's prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington, makes available for the first time in one collection Harlan's essays on the life and career of the celebrated black leader.Written over a span of a quarter of a century, they present a remarkably rich and complex look at Washington, the.

Louis R. Harlan is professor of history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Separate and Unequal: Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915 (1958), and Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901 (1972).Stuart B. Kaufman is assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland.. He recently published Samuel Gompers.

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The first volume of Louis R. Harlan's biography of Booker T. Washington was published to wide acclaim and won the 1973 Bancroft Prize. This, the second volume, completes one of the most significant biographies of this generation. Booker T. Washington was the most powerful black American of his time, and here he is captured at his zenith. Harlan.

Harlan’s essays on Washington, spanning twenty-five years of research, have been published as Booker T. Washington in Perspective: The Essays of Louis R. Harlan (1989). During his career Louis Harlan has been the recipient of many honors and awards including an ACLS fellowship (1964) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1975).

The story of the Negro the rise of the race from slavery by: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Published: (2005) Booker T. Washington in perspective essays of Louis R. Harlan.

Louis R. Harlan is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland and is the author of a highly acclaimed two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington.Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901, was awarded a Bancroft Prize and Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915, received the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes, as well as the Beveridge Award.