My Larger Education: Being Chapters f...
Booker T. WashingtonThe celebrated African American leader describes his influences and outlines his views, in which racial identities unite rather than separate. Washington proposed that most African Americans would benefit from a practical trade rather...
Three African-American Classics: Up f...
Booker T. WashingtonEssential reading for students of African-American history, this collection represents three highly influential leaders. Washington and Douglass, both of whom were born into slavery, recount their rise from bondage to international re...
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Univers...