Description: The first biography of Emmett J. Scott, chief of staff, adviser, and ghostwriter to Booker T. Washington, and power player behind the Tuskegee Institute.
Brief description: Maceo C. Dailey Jr. (1943-2015) was an award-winning historian whose essays have been published in Freedomways, Langston Hughes Review, Review of Black Political Economy, Harvard Business History Review, Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South, and Dígame! He co-edited/authored African Americans in El Paso (2014), When the Saints Go Hobbling In: Emmett Jay Scott and the Booker T. Washington Movement (2013), Tuneful Tales (2002), and Wheresoever My People Chance to Dwell: Oral Interviews with African American Women of El Paso (2000).
Review Quotes: "Dailey's well-researched biography of Scott offers an
alternative to the traditional history of Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee
Institute. . . . Dailey provides a vivid and compelling history
of a man known publicly as Washington's liaison but who masterfully became the
architect of the Tuskegee Machine through his behind-the-scenes leadership,
political savviness, and astute personality. Through Dailey's first volume of
Scott's life, we learn that Scott was a race man and a leading 'power broker of
the Tuskegee Machine.'" --Sheena Harris Hayes, Journal of Southern History
90, no. 3 (August 2024)