Tag: Booker T. Washington

‘Uncle Tom II’ Delves Into Communist Infiltration of Civil Rights Movement: Filmmakers

The Civil Rights Movement was perceived as a high point in American history and a great victory, but one of its outcomes was a rhetorical and cultural shift that instilled in black people a sense of oppression and victimhood, said the documentary filmmakers of “Uncle Tom II: An American Odyssey.” In terms of black culture,…


How Robert E. Lee and Booker T. Washington Became Educators Dedicated to Rebuilding a War-Torn America

If we slip back in time to the late 1860s, we find an America torn apart by war and suffering. In the spring of 1865, the North had defeated the Southern Confederacy. Less than a week after Confederate forces surrendered at Appomattox, Abraham Lincoln, whose policies might have changed the course of American history following…


TV Documentary Review: ‘Theodore Roosevelt’: Complex Man for Complicated Times

R | 2 episodes | Documentary | May 30, 2022 (USA) He was a “transformational” president by any progressive measure. Unfortunately, by dividing the Republican opposition, he helped elect Woodrow Wilson (who dramatically turned back the clock for Civil Rights when he segregated the federal government). In so many ways, Theodore Roosevelt reshaped America, even through his strategic mistakes….