Booker T. Washington
Volume 1: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901
by Louis R. Harlan · February 13, 1975
Traces the African American educator's climb to fame and power from his lowly beginnings in a Virginia log cabin in 1865 to a celebrated dinner at the White House in 1901.
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