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<p>"Denton is absolutely on target in her assertion that Washington was the pioneer of adult education in the worldwide community."--Leo McGee, Tennessee Technological University<br> "Men grow strong in proportion as they reach down to help others up."--Booker T. Washington, 1906<br> Born into slavery in 1856, Booker T. Washington overcame staggering obstacles to lead emancipated blacks into a quiet revolution against illiteracy and economic dependence. Virginia Denton establishes his stature as an agent for social change through adult education, focusing particularly on Washington's work at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which he founded and led as principal from 1881 until his death in 1915.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; Washington formed his early vision of the world at home in Hale's Ford, Virginia, an isolated rural crossroads where conditions were bleak for both blacks and whites, and at Hampton Institute in Hampton, West Virginia, where the principal, General Chapman Armstrong, became his most significant white mentor. Imbued with Armstrong's model of "head-hands-heart" education, Washington believed that to compete for justice, people must be trained and their training must be determ

Author

Denton, Virginia Lantz

Publisher

University Press of Florida, 15 Northwest 15th Street, Gainesville, FL 32611 ($34.95)

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813019369

Subjects

Education, History