Release Date
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Original Release
May 31, 1982
0h 32m
Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy (1982)
⭐ 0.032 min
Overview
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
Director
William Greaves
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 0.2
Genres
Documentary
