Up From History

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
In the early 1890s, Booker T. Washington was "the most famous and respected black man in America." Yet by the end of the decade he was widely caricatured and mocked until his death in 1915. Robert Norrell asks us to rethink Washington and his achievments with his new biography Up From History.

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