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

• Documentary

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

Release date

May 31, 1982

Runtime

32m

Language

English

Director

William Greaves

Status

Released