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Booker T. Washington: The Life and the Legacy (1982)
Directed by William Greaves
Documentary · 32m
Traces the life of Booker T. Washington, ex-slave, author, educator, and political leader, focusing on his stewardship of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Uses historic photographs, re-created vignettes, and interviews with contemporaries such as W.E.B. DuBois to present Washington's complex personality and his influence on southern life after the Civil War. Also examines his controversial policies of Black economic self-reliance and political accommodation
Crew
- Director
- William Greaves
- Writer
- William Greaves
- Director of Photography
- William Greaves
- Editor
- William Greaves
- Producer
- William Greaves
Details
- Release date
- 1982-05-31
- Runtime
- 32m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN