Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Up from Slavery
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Story of My Life and Work
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A publisher's dummy used for subscription sales of Washington's autobiography. Selected pages of the text and 37 illustrated plates are included. The front and back cover represent two of the three available bindings for the edition; the spine for the third option is pasted to the inside back cover.
Tuskegee & Its People
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Character Building
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368905368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Booker T. Washington and Black Progress
Author: W. Fitzhugh BrundagePublisher:
ISBN: 9780813028149
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Inspired by the centenary of the publication of Washington's autobiography, Up From Slavery, this collection of essays reinterprets Washington's career and self-presentation. As the most visible and widely acclaimed black leader of his era, Washington played a pivotal role in advocating a strategy for the racial uplift of African Americans in an age of intensifying racism and discrimination. This collection insists that in order to understand the era of Jim Crow, we must come to terms with Washington and his autobiography. It uses Washington, his autobiography, and his program to consider the meanings of Up From Slavery, the plight of African Americans, and possible responses by blacks in the United States and elsewhere to the highest stage of white supremacy. Collectively and individually, these essays shed light on aspects of Washington and his life that have been poorly understood. Neither a critique nor an apologia, Booker T. Washington and Black Progress offers fresh perspectives by leading scholars on one of the most remarkable and influential figures in turn-of-the-century America, providing a new appreciation of both the man and his times.
Up from Slavery
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher: First Avenue Editions ™
ISBN: 1541548019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In this acclaimed autobiography, Booker T. Washington makes a case for lifting up his race through education. Washington uses his personal story as the example, from his birth to slave parents on a Virginia plantation and his struggle to go to school to his adult achievements as a public speaker and black leader. Washington outlines more than forty years of his life, emphasizing how he overcame great obstacles in order to pursue his education at Hampton University. As an adult, he opened a school for black students in Tuskegee, Alabama, and later he established other successful vocational schools. Throughout the book, Washington describes his educational philosophy and his hopes and dreams for African Americans. This is an unabridged version of Booker T. Washington's life story, which was first published in 1901.
Up From Slavery
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8728171705
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
For those interested in the history of slavery and the American Civil War, 'Up from Slavery' is the autobiography from American eudcator Booker T. Washington in which he describes his experiences of living as an enslaved child during the Civil War. Washington overcame many obstacles to get an education and throughout his autobiography, he gratefully reflects on the help of his teachers and philanthropists who helped educate Black and Native Americans. The autobiography was a best seller; much to do with its honest and historically significant depiction of the struggles that Washington faced. If you are eager to know more about the history of slavery, Sojourner Truth's 'Narrative of Sojourner Truth' will provide great insight into being a slave in the North. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Virginia in 1856. He is regarded as one of the foremost African American leaders of the late 19th century, and founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in 1881. He became a teacher after the Civil War, and was also a political adviser and writer. Washington's mother, Jane, worked as a cook for a plantation owner and his father was an unknown white man, most likely from a nearby plantation. From a young age, Washington worked carrying sacks of grain to the plantations mill. Despite the sacks weighing around 100-pounds and being too heavy for a young boy, he was often beaten for not working to a high enough standard. After the Civil War, Washington and his mother moved to West Virginia, where she married a freedman. The family was very poor, and nine-year-old Washington went to work in the nearby salt furnaces instead of going to school. He then worked as a houseboy for the wife of a local coal mine owner. She recognised his desire for education and allowed him to go to school for an hour a day during the winter months. He died in November, 1915, at the age of 59, of congestive heart failure.
An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
The Works of Booker T. Washington
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher: Historic Publishing
ISBN: 9781946640451
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
IT HAS been my fortune to be associated all my life with a problem -- a hard, perplexing, but important problem. There was a time when I looked upon this fact as a great misfortune. It seemed to me a great hardship that I was born poor, and it seemed an even greater hardship that I should have been born a Negro. I did not like to admit, even to myself, that I felt this way about the matter, because it seemed to me an indication of weakness and cowardice for any man to complain about the condition he was born to. Later I came to the conclusion that it was not only weak and cowardly, but that it was a mistake to think of the matter in the way in which I had done. I came to see that, along with his disadvantages, the Negro in America had some advantages, and I made up my mind that opportunities that had been denied him from without could be more than made up by greater concentration and power within.