Artist: Booker T. Washington

Title: Booker T's Child

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2012

Label: Folkways Records

UPC: 093070552128

Genre: African, Spoken

Album Tracks

1. Booker T.'s Child
2. Portia
3. Booker T. Washington, Atlantic Exposition Address (Original Recording 1895)

A controversial (though influential) figure in African American history, Booker T. Washington's image is sanctified here as poet and author, Roy L. Hill, combines forces with Washington's daughter, Portia Washington-Pittman. Pittman reflects on her father's life and attempts to counteract the negative perceptions about her father with her own thoughtful understanding of Washington's disposition. The compilation includes a recording of a speech delivered by Booker T. Washington at the opening of the Atlanta Cotton States in 1895.