@article{775601,
      recid = {775601},
      author = {Hamilton, Kenneth Marvin,},
      title = {Booker T. Washington in American memory /},
      pages = {ix, 250 pages ;},
      abstract = {"This project examines the response to Booker T.  Washington's death, analyzing the many ways in which both  black and white Americans involved in the Yankee Protestant  Ethic Movement honored or memorialized the great visionary.  The northern-based Movement originally saw southerners as a  people who embraced a profane ethic, one that undermined  the glory of the nation. In order to shift southerners away  from their lazy, inefficient, and uneducated ways, the  Movement engaged them in a culture war that employed  multiple educational and evangelical agencies. When white  southerners resisted such interference, the Movement began  concentrating more exclusively on black southerners.  Washington became an advocate for the Movement, and in turn  the Movement became a cornerstone of Washington's ideology.  After Washington's death, leading supporters of the  Movement wanted to perpetuate his vision. They used  obituaries, burial rites, memorials, and eulogies as  weapons of choice in their efforts to continue a culture  war between a supposedly democratic North and a seemingly  aristocratic South. Hamilton reexamines Washington's  influences, thereby producing a new understanding of his  life. Integrating an analysis of letters of solace,  obituaries, and other archival documents, Hamilton examines  the ways that the memory of Washington and his works were  cultivated and utilized by his contemporaries to promote  racial consciousness. By closely working with the documents  that reflect the memory and admiration of Washington at the  time of his death, Hamilton is also able to show how  recollections of Washington have shifted or become obscured  by more recent historical assumptions or  interpretations."--Provided by publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/775601},
}