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.
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