"An autobiography"-from cover. Includes selected speeches and interviews, and suggested reading.
Summary:
"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"--Publisher's description.
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