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Author
Series
Library of American biography volume 12
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
1836-1848
Physical Desc
p. 3-199.
Language
English
Series
Library of American biography volume 7
Publisher
R. J. Kennett
Pub. Date
1837
Physical Desc
xii, 398 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spec. Coll.
Author
Series
Library of American biography volume 20
Publisher
C.C. Little and J. Brown
Pub. Date
1846
Physical Desc
x, 403 p. port. 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1956]
Edition
[1st ed.].
Physical Desc
vii, 215 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A series of specific challenges led Eli Whitney to exercise his ingenuity in technology and made him an engineer. His cotton gin revolutionized Southern agriculture. And the problems of manufacturing large quantities of guns drove him to develop principles important in his own time, and even more important later. The application of those principles would one day give American industry the structure within which it more than fulfilled the ambitions...
Author
Language
English
Description
The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him "the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington." For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation's most visible and most powerful African-American leader. He won passage of a federal anti-lynching law, hosted one of the premier salons of the Harlem Renaissance, created the legal strategy that led to Brown...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and race leader. But to historians and biographers of the last hundred years, Washington has often been described as an enigma, a man who rose to prominence because he offered a compromise with the white South: he was willing to trade civil rights for economic and educational advancement. Thus, one historian...
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