THE WIZARD OF TUSKEGEE: BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND THE REVOLUTIONARY MODERNIZATION OF BLACK AMERICA:

The author highlights the full inadequacy of regarding Washington as "accommodationist, '' "sycophant, '' "betrayer, '' and "Uncle Tom, '' images that continue to dominate scholarship on the Tuskegeean. This work reveals Washington as the Grand Black Leader, who functioned as a revolutionary modernization and development leader. He endeavored to help Blacks "up from slavery, '' to modernize and develop and become "New Blacks" in the country. Against the persistent perspective in academe, th...