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Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later

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From: The Journal of Southern History
Date: 20050201
Author:Anderson, Eric D

Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later. Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. viii, 227. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-2814-0; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2674-1.)

"This collection is not intended to rehabilitate [Booker T.] Washington's reputation," declares editor W. Fitzhugh Brundage (p. 4). It is a "coincidence," he says, that most of the contributors to Booker T. Washington and Black Progress reach "relatively positive conclusions" about a man who has often been depicted as a duplicitous ...

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