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Booker T. Washington was so acclaimed as a public leader that the period of his activity, from 1880 to 1915, has been called the Age of Booker T. Washington. [58] Historiography on Washington, his character, and the value of that leadership has varied dramatically.
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 ...
Pages in category "Books by Booker T. Washington" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
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 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.
Books by Booker T. Washington (8 P) C. ... Pages in category "Booker T. Washington" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
The Negro in Business is a book by Booker T. Washington published by Hertel, Jenkins & Company in 1907. [1] A copy is held by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture [2] and the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
The book is also significant in its representation of the collaboration between a prominent African-American leader (Washington) and a white sociologist (Park) during a time of heightened racial tensions in the United States. [4] [1] [5] The book begins, "On 20 August, 1910, I sailed from New York City for Liverpool, England. I had been given a ...
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