Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy

Story

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

Kurzinfos

Originaltitel

Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy

Status

Released

Start

31.05.1982

Laufzeit

32 min

Originalsprache

en

Genres

Dokumentarfilm