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American Documentary History Collection:
The Booker T. Washington Papers Digital Edition

Hrsg. v. Louis R. Harlan und Raymond W. Smock

Online

Inhalt :: Content

Online-Service mit Zugang zu den Schriften, Briefen und Reden von Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), einem der einflussreichsten afroamerikanischen Pädagogen, Autoren und Bürgerrechtler an der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert. Der Online-Ausgabe liegt die zwischen 1972 und 1989 bei der University of Illinois Press veröffentlichte, 14-bändige Printausgabe zugrunde.

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The University of Virginia Press, Rotunda

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American Documentary History Collection

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10928405

Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information

Rotunda is the digital imprint of the University of Virginia Press. It was conceived as an experiment in the feasibility of electronic academic publishing at the dawn of the Internet age, launching its first Founding Era publication in 2004, The Dolley Madison Digital Edition. Today, Rotunda continues to legitimize and preserve digital scholarly editions by integrating them with an established university press.

Rotunda’s American History Collection is a comprehensive archive of America's documentary legacy, spanning from George Washington’s earliest surveying journals to Ronald Reagan’s Oval Office recordings. Comprising over 300,000 primary source materials, these authoritative editions, trusted by over 200 universities worldwide, bridge the gap between the meticulous scholarship of printed volumes and the ever-increasing potential of digital discovery. As the collection expands, it will look to increase its coverage of presidential correspondence, as well as introduce new, vital voices that enrich our understanding of the American experience.

The Booker T. Washington Papers Digital Edition

Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington became the leading voice for Black Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Author, pioneer in higher education, adviser to presidents and business leaders, and a pillar in the emerging Black elite and middle class, Washington helped conceive a future for an educated, prosperous Black society in the wake of emancipation and Reconstruction.

The son of an enslaved Virginia woman, Washington identified education as the pathway out of poverty, a necessity for his voracious intellect, and the focus of his professional life. He served as the first president of what is now Tuskegee University, to this day one of the premier historically Black universities in America. As president he forged relationships with the most powerful philanthropists of the day, including Carnegie and Rockefeller, establishing a network of donors that reflected a belief in and talent for working with the white establishment. Washington’s landmark Atlanta Exposition Speech in 1895 called for an African American investment in industrial education and accumulation of wealth as a way of integrating Blacks into society at large. This position was not uncontroversial—passionate activists such as NAACP cofounder W. E. B. Du Bois criticized it as being too conservative—and the surrounding debates are foundational to the most vital discussions in Black discourse: how can Black Americans best advance themselves, and can true equality and equity be achieved in the face of white oppression and the legacies of segregationist public policy?

This digital edition is based on the landmark fourteen-volume print series of Washington’s papers, one of the great documentary editions in American scholarship—“a major enterprise in Black historiography” (Times Literary Supplement).