Louis R. Harlan, American historian and author (born 1922)

Louis R. Harlan

American historian (1922–2010)

Louis Rudolph Harlan was an American academic historian who wrote a two-volume biography of the African-American educator and social leader Booker T. Washington and edited several volumes of Washington materials. He won the Bancroft Prize in 1973 and 1984, once for each volume,…