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Author:

Schraff, Anne E.

Title:

Booker T. Washington : "character is power" / Anne Schraff.

Edition:

[Library ed.].

Publisher:

Enslow Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Washington, Booker T.,--1856-1915--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Educators--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Character--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Washington, Booker T.,--1856-1915.
African Americans--Biography.
Educators.
Character.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-125) and index.

Contents:

Boy on fire -- Childhood -- From student to teacher -- The road to Tuskegee -- Founding of Tuskegee and family life -- Washington's way -- "Cast down your bucket where you are" -- The deepening rift -- Race riots and the NAACP -- Death and legacy.

Summary:

Examines the life of Booker T. Washington, a slave freed after the Civil War who became a leading educator of African Americans and whose Tuskegee Institute taught farming, carpentry, sewing, and other skills.

Series:

African-American biography library

ISBN:

9780766025356
0766025357

LCCN:

2005034880

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)