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The Civil Rights Reader

American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation

The Civil Rights Reader( )
Associate Editor: Schmidt, Amy
Editor: Armstrong, Julie Buckner
Contribution by: Washington, Booker T.
Chesnutt, Charles W.
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
McKay, Claude
Smith, Lillian
Hughes, Langston
Caldwell, Erskine
Wright, Richard
Ellison, Ralph
Welty, Eudora
Hayden, Robert
Walker, Margaret
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Baldwin, James
O'Connor, Flannery
Lorde, Audre
Clifton, Estate of Lucille
Jordan, June
Harper, Michael S.
Madhubuti, Haki
Giovanni, Nikki
Curry, Constance
Derricotte, Toi
Coleman, Wanda
Nelson, Marilyn
Dove, Rita
Grooms, Anthony
Cassells, Cyrus
Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne
Harper, Frances E. W.
Burrill, Mary
Grimké, Angelina Weld
Randall, Dudley
King, Martin Luther
Sackler, Howard
Cleaver, Eldridge
Hernandez, David
Campbell, Bebe Moore
Williams, Patricia J.
Mosley, Walter
Baraka, Amiri
ISBN:978-0-8203-3225-3
Publication Date:Jan 2009
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $32.95
Book Description:

This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Including works by some of the most influential writers to engage issues of race and social justice, including James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, and Nikki Giovanni.

Book Details
Pages:392
Detailed Subjects: Political Science / Civil Rights
Literary Collections / American / African American & Black
Literary Collections / American / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.068 x 9.163 x 0.991 Inches
Book Weight:1.24 Pounds
Author Biography
(Associate Editor)
Booker Taliaferro Washington, 1856 - 1915 Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Hales Ford, Virginia, near Roanoke. After the U.S. government freed all slaves in 1865, his family moved to Malden, West Virginia. There, Washington worked in coal mines and salt furnaces. He went on to attend the Hampton, Virginia Normal and Agricultural Institute from 1872-1875 before joining the staff in 1879. In 1881 he was selected to head the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, a new teacher-training school for blacks, which he transformed into a thriving institution, later named Tuskegee University. His controversial conviction that blacks could best gain equality in the U.S. by improving their economic situation through education rather than by demanding equal rights was termed the Atlanta Compromise, because Washington accepted inequality and segregation for blacks in exchange for economic advancement.

Washington advised two Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, on racial problems and policies, as well as influencing the appointment of several blacks to federal offices. Washington became a shrewd political leader and advised not only Presidents, but also members of Congress and governors. He urged wealthy people to contribute to various black organizations. He also owned or financially supported many black newspapers. In 1900, Washington founded the National Negro Business League to help black business firms.

Washington fought silently for equal rights, but was eventually usurped by those who ideas were more radical and demanded more action. Washington was replaced by W. E. B. Du Bois as the foremost black leader of the time, after having spent long years listening to Du Bois deride him for his placation of the white man and the plight of the negro. He died in 1915.

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