Louis R. Harlan, Historian of Booker T. Washington, Dies at 87
Mr. Harlan’s definitive two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington convincingly embraced its subject’s daunting complexities and ambiguities and won the Pulitzer Prize.
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 30 January, 2010
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