The Art of the Possible: Booker T. Washington a, Verney Paperback..

Taylor & Francis

First published in 2002. The Art of The Possible is a new study of the ideas and achievements of Booker T. Washington, the most influential African American leader of the period 1881-1915. > First published in 2002. The Art of The Possible is a new study of the ideas and achievements of Booker T. Washington, the most influential African American leader of the period 1881-1915. Washington's program for racial uplift is assessed in the context of the key political, social and economic developments of his era, in a work which both incorporates original research and a systhesis of modern scholarship. > \n1 lntroduction: African-American History. 2 The Lion and the Lamb: Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington 3 Roads Not Taken: Booker T. Washington as a .Race Leader 4 As Scparate as the Five Fingers: Booker T. Washington and the Age of Jim Crow 5 Realist or Reactionary? Booker T. Washington and the Great Migration 6 The Realist and the Dreamer'! Booker T. Washington and W. E. Bn