. next, mers he university professor chester fontenot examines the life and legacy of booker t. washington. he talks about washington s early years at tuskegee university and looked at his ideological platform which encouraged african-americans to establish their own economic base while washington helped create many institutions for african-americans such as the national negro business league, he also had opposition to his ideas, both during his lifetime and since. fontenot also compared ideas and tactics of booker t. washington and mgartin luther king jr. i made a statement in class that many of you disagreed with when i said that booker t. washington was the most important and the most influential african-american leader until the election of president barack obama. he is even more significant in some ways because booker t. washington was never elected to a public office. barack obama president barack obama, is elected president of the united states and he is not a blac
and follow us on twitter. next on american history tv. lectures in history . next, university of michigan that are that jones talks about a female slave who killed her owner after repeated sexual assaults. the class discusses the options she may have had and looks at involvement of her fellow slaves and white neighbors in the course case. this is an hour and 20 minutes. today we began the discussion we started a couple of weeks ago and in particular. enslaved women. we have already had a chance to look at the case of oh harriet jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. jacobs introduced us, if you will to the dimension of slavery that s especially illustrated, exemplified. we might say central to the experience of slave women. that s sexual violence. we ll come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today that of celia. we have also looked at the wpa narratives. one of the things we noticed about those narratives is you will rec
self-defense self-defense. the argument is that celia while she killed newsom, did so defending herself against newsom s commission of a felony, the felony of rape or defilement in missouri. here the statute that is key to determining whether or not celia was in fact in imminent fear of being raped. let s read it together. every person who shall take any woman flauflunlawfully and by force, menace or duress compel her to marry him or to marry any other person, or to be defiled, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprizsonment in the pen penitentiary for not less than five years. any woman unlawfully against her will. how do you read this as applies to celia? that makes assumption that the woman in question has will in fact. i know that as a slave that they are no such will exists and i think that s why the court did not recognize herself defense claim. good. so it is any woman against her will. i think one of the key questions here that the court must i
congress. universityrcer professor examines the life and legacy of booker t. washington. he talks about washington s early years at tuskegee university and looks at the ideological platform which encouraged african americans to establish their own economic base. washington helped create many institutions for african-americans, like the national negro business league, he also had opposition to his ideas, both during his lifetime and since. professor fontenot compares the ideas and tactics of booker t. washington and martin luther king, jr. this class is about an hour and 20 minutes. remember we have been talking about booker t. washington and some of you disagree that washington in fact is a seminal figure that i have insisted that he is. because i made a statement in class that many of you disagreed with when i said washington was the most important and most influential african-american leader until the election of president barack obama. he is even more significant in some
some of you disagree with that. so i make my case today that you can in fact agree or disagree with. we start of course with washington s birth. this is the original structure, home in which booker t. washington was born. you remember from slavery he talks about his humble beginnings and we said that washington is establishing his , kind his credibility of street cred as a black leader. in order to entury establish your credentials as a race leader you have to have been a slave. so at the beginning of up from slavey he establishes his street credibility so to speak, right? that he was a slave right? we know he wasn t a slave for very long because slavery ended when he was 12 years old. we also know that because slavery ended so early, in washington s life, that he may not have experienced the full import and weight of slavery because it ended when he was 12 years old. we know before the import of slavery it usually did not rest upon slave children fully until they reached pub