ating a red stick of candy on Saturdays (p. 206).
The reference to candy is quaint, but the overall tenor of his critique could have come from Muhammad X. A generation after the civil rights movement achieved much of the political agenda that rivals like DuBois insisted upon, but which Washington ignored, the case for self-liberation from within has become clearer than it was in the 1950s and 1960s, and perhaps Booker T. Washington has become more relevant.
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 is the second volume of Louis Harlan's biography of Washington; the first volume, The Making of a Black Leader, appeared several years previously. In addition, the author has co-edited a thirteen-volume edition of The Booker T. Washington Papers. Harlan is thus in a position to write authoritatively on the subject of Washington's life, career, and character. However,
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