Up From Slavery
Booker T. Washington
(Author)
Description
Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal ethnic and national experiences in working to rise from the position of a slave during the Civil War in the historical United States, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools, most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. Up From Slavery is a must read memoir.
Product Details
Price
$9.95
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publish Date
August 22, 2016
Pages
210
Dimensions
5.51 X 8.5 X 0.44 inches | 0.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781537080055
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Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite