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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Booker T. Washington"”.
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"Black Cowboys: Self-Sufficiency in the American West through the ideology of Booker T. Washington"
… black cowboys. Using the views and ideologies of Booker T. Washington, black cowboys were able to become self-sufficient men. This thesis will present a comparison and contrast between the historiography and autobiographies of black cowboys. Furthermore, giving black cowboys a voice through the …
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The Feminine Representation of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois in Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter
… African American uplift ideology. Hughes implies Booker T. Washington's racial uplift ideology from Up From Slavery within Aunt Hager Williams. In addition, Hughes implies W.E.B. DuBois' racial uplift ideology from Souls of Black Folk within Tempy Siles. In both characters, he criticizes the …
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The Story of His Life and Work: Public History at The Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial (1945-1956)
… Virginia and the United States to establish the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial at the site of Washington’s birth in Franklin County, Virginia. The Memorial organization undertook public history work that emphasized Washington as a significant figure in United States history and provided …
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We Are A New Race:' Booker T. Washington's Use Of African American Spirituals In The Creation Of A New Negro Image
<p>This study examines how Booker T. Washington used music to project a New Negro image to the American public while also instilling the qualities of this New Negro into his students. Washington hoped to uplift the African American race by challenging racial caricatures prominent in American …
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Political Accommodation: The Effects of Booker T. Washington's Leadership and Legacy on Tuskegee University and The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
… Also, the philosophies of its founder, Booker T. Washington, are examined to discover the rationale behind the Institution's participation in an Experiment, which eventually became harmful. Finally, I hope to reveal why Tuskegee has been historically omitted from any blame in the …
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Breaking Down the Fear' -- John H. Mccray, Accommodationism and theFraming of the Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1940-1948
… thought in the Deep South since the days of Booker T. Washington. This study explores the origins and legacy of accommodationism in the Deep South. It argues that McCray and his colleagues had to confront this culture directly before it could forge a new path for the black freedom movement in …
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Tuskegee, Achimota and the Construction of Black Transcultural Identity
… who figure prominently in this case study are Booker T. Washington, the president and founder of Tuskegee Institute, and his African counter-part, James E.K. Aggrey, a co-founder of Achimota who together became the public face of the model on two continents while they quietly nurtured a elite …
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Black youth in vocational education: further education, labor market, civic and political participation
Since the days of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, the argument has flourished relative to the value of vocational education for Black youth. This study, using data from the "High School and Beyond 1980 Sophomore Cohort Third Follow-Up (1986)" survey, investigated three basic areas, …
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Uneven Ground: Figurations Of The Rural Modern In The U.S. South, 1890-1945
… I explore in the writing of W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Frances F. W. Harper. In the second section, I propose two categories of agrarians: "leisure agrarians" such as the Twelve Southerners and Helen and Scott Nearing, figures who stage their protests of …
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Rhetoric of Social Change, 1897-1907: Attitude as Incipient Action
… Paris Exposition, the published 1901 review of Washington's autobiography Up From Slavery "On Booker T. Washington and Others," and the Souls of Black Folk published in 1903." Ultimately, the study argues that DuBois' approach was rhetorically superior to others, namely Washington, insofar as Du …
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Aida Overton Walker, “Actor Lady”: Unveiling Race and Gender in African American Performance Motifs, 1900-1912
… including the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, David Krasner, Karen Sotiropoulos, Susan A. Glenn, Daphne Brooks and Jayna Brown. I will explore such critical texts alongside primary material, including the scripts and song sheets for In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy …
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Habitat Selection in Four Sympatric Small Mammal Species and the Effects of Potential Predators on Peromyscus Leucopus
… Court House National Historical Park (15) and Booker T. Washington National Monument (12). Sites were categorized by location (park unit) and habitat type (i.e. bottom-land hardwood), and the microhabitat within each sampling site was characterized by four variables (% cover of grasses, herbs, …
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Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941
… through problematics of race and politics: the Washington—Du Bois debates on racial uplift, New Negro cultural nationalism, the Great Migration narrative, black Marxism, and ethnic proletarian literature. Employing methods of environmental historicism, archival research, and intersectional …