Booker T. Washington Rediscovered Quotes

“and he suffers the unenviable fate of being spoken for by a long list of detractors who cherry-pick from a mountain of writings, a line that fits a now-established historical narrative with a tragic plot. As a result, Washington largely exists as an abstraction, reduced to a World’s Fair speech and a feel-good, up-by-one’s-bootstraps autobiography.”
― Michael Bieze, Booker T. Washington Rediscovered