Interview: Professors Douglas Brinkley and David Levering Lewis discuss the differences and similarities between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois

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03-25-2001

Interview: Professors Douglas Brinkley and David Levering Lewis discuss the differences and similarities between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois

Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM

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One hundred years ago this month the A.L. Burtt Company(ph) published Booker T. Washington's autobiography, "Up from Slavery." The story of a boy who gained his freedom with the Emanci...

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