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Booker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery,
charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion
for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and
first president of Tuskegee University. A tireless advocate for
Black economic independence, Washington attempted to balance his
public acceptance of segregation with behind-the-scenes lobbying
against voter disenfranchisement and financing anti–Jim Crow
court cases. His memoir is both a crucial American document and an
exercise in understanding the “double consciousness†coined by
W.E.B. DuBois, himself one of Washington’s most vocal critics.
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Afro-american Encyclopaedia, Or, The Thoughts, Doings, And Sayings Of The Race - Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names Of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, And A History Of The Denominations, (Hardcover)
James T Haley; Created by Booker T. Washington
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In Character Building are thirty seven addresses that Booker T.
Washington gave before students, faculty, and guests at the
Tuskegee Institute. These addresses take the form of timeless
advice on a number of subjects. Very motivational and uplifting.
Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his
contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and not
concerned enough about civil rights. It would not be until after
his death that the world would find out that he had indeed worked a
great deal for civil rights anonymously behind the scenes.
In My Larger Education, Booker T. Washington explains how he came
by his positions on race relations, by describing the people who
influenced him during the founding of Tuskegee Normal and
Industrial Institute of Alabama. Washington was constantly, and
often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too
conciliatory to whites and not concerned enough about civil rights.
It would not be until after his death that the world would find out
that he had indeed worked a great deal for civil rights anonymously
behind the scenes.
Up from Slavery is one of the most influential biographies ever
written. On one level it is the life story of Booker T. Washington
and his rise from slavery to accomplished educator and activist. On
another level it the story of how an entire race strove to better
itself. Washington makes it clear just how far race relations in
America have come, and to some extent, just how much further they
have to go. Written with wit and clarity.
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