Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy (1982)

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Original Title: Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy

Release Date: May 31, 1982

Runtime: 32 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

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