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Booker T. Washington: Understanding the Wizard of Tuskegee
From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Date: 20040131
Author:J, Robert
FROM HIS DAY to ours, Booker T. Washington has been viewed as a symbol of the age in which he lived, but he has proved to be an elastic emblem, one pulled and stretched to mean different things to different people. Washington clearly recognized his symbolic role and acted always to shape its meaning, but often he failed to persuade his audience of the object lessons he meant to teach. When Washington's autobiography Up From Slavery appeared in 1901, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois began to critique the Tuskegee principal as a black leader chosen by whites. Du Bois wrote that Washington had ...
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