Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
Original title: Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy
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5/31/1982
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0h 32min
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Synopsis
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
Direction: William Greaves
Screenwriter: William Greaves
Producer: William Greaves
