Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy

Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 31, 1982

Runtime

0h 32m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy

Description

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