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Character Building is a book published in Booker T. Washington. It is a collection of talks on self-development given to students and faculty at the Tuskegee Institute he was leading. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, published the 1902 edition. Phoenix Publications, New York, reissued the book in 2005. [1]
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
Tuskegee & Its People is a 1905 book edited by American educator Booker T Washington.Its full title is Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements.It has been printed in various editions and is available for study online via Project Gutenberg.
Throughout the book, Washington refers to Tuskegee, a university founded by himself and others. It was a historically black university in Tuskegee, Alabama. In The Future of an American Negro, Booker writes that the university is, "placing men and women of intelligence, religion, modesty, conscience, and skill in every community in the South."
The following 35 pages use this file: African American cinema; Atlanta Exposition Speech; Booker T. Washington; Frances Benjamin Johnston; Talk:Booker T. Washington/Archive 2
Through their observations and research, Washington and Park aimed to shed light on the struggles faced by the working class in Europe and to offer insights into how these issues might be addressed. The book is also significant in its representation of the collaboration between a prominent African-American leader (Washington) and a white ...
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of the American educator Booker T. Washington (1856–1915). The book describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved as a child during the Civil War, the obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, and his work establishing vocational schools like the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help Black people and ...
The Negro Problem is a collection of seven essays by prominent Black American writers, such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Booker T. Washington, and published in 1903. It covers law, education, disenfranchisement, and Black Americans' place in American society.