The Negro Problem
One hundred years ago, African Americans looked forward to the new twentieth century with mixed feelings of pride and discouragement. On the one hand, they could point to the tremendous progress many of them had made since the end of slavery under the dynamic leadership of Booker T. Washington, whose thriving vocational school, the Tuskegee Institute, was famous throughout the nation. Washington had become the confidant of powerful and influential white Americans, and in 1901 he even dined with President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House. But on the other hand, the majority of white Americans showed little willingness to accept blacks as…
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Weitere Autoren: Du Bois, W. E. B. / Dunbar, Paul Laurence / Chesnutt, Charles W.
- ISBN: 978-1-59102-106-3
- EAN: 9781591021063
- Produktnummer: 9151975
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
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Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915) was a renowned African American leader and spokesman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He headed the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama and authored a dozen books, including his autobiography, Up from Slavery.W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963) was a leading African American intellectual and activist of the early twentieth century. He helped found the NAACP, and throughout his long career published over a hundred articles and essays, and authored twenty-one books, including The Negro, The Gift of Black Folk, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880, and Black Folk, Then and Now.Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 - 1906) was a poet and novelist. He published three volumes of poetry and four novels.Charles W. Chesnutt (1858 -1932) was a school teacher, a principal, a businessman, and an attorney, as well as a writer. He published more than fifty tales, short stories, and essays; a biography of Frederick Douglass; and three novels.
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