Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rampersad, Arnold

Titel

Ralph Ellison at Tuskegee

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of blacks in higher education, 2007-07 (56), p.59-67

Ort / Verlag

New York: Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Between the church and a tiny cemetery stood die life-size statue of the school's founder, Booker T. Washington, in the bronzed act of lifting the veil of ignorance from the brow of a crouching, rudely clad black man. Bom a slave to a black plantation cook and a white man (probably tiieir master), he had willed himself out of poverty after tiie Civil War, learned to read and write, and wheedled his way into Hampton Institute in his native Virginia. [...] in a school for blacks staffed by northern white men and women of abolitionist stock, he had honed the social and political skills that were to mark his life.