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Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington is freed when he is nine years old. To help support his family, he then works as a salt packer, coal miner, and house servant. All the while, he longs to become educated and to educate others. Poverty, racism, and other obstacles stand in his way. Will he overcome them all, or will the many barriers prove stronger than his unwavering determination? --From the Publisher --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington is freed when he is nine years old. To help support his family, he then works as a salt packer, coal miner, and house servant. All the while, he longs to become educated and to educate others. Poverty, racism, and other obstacles stand in his way. Will he overcome them all, or will the many barriers prove stronger than his unwavering determination? --From the Publisher --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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General Armstrong, Hampton Institute, Miss Davidson, New York, West Virginia, Atlanta Exposition, United States, American Negro, Professor Booker, Tuskegee Institute, Civil War, Governor Bullock, Harvard University, Lady Principal, New England, Board of Directors, City Council, Emancipation Proclamation, Miss Mary, Music Hall, Negro Building, Negro Conference, Porter Hall, President Eliot, Alabama Hall New!
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General Armstrong, Hampton Institute, Miss Davidson, New York, West Virginia, Atlanta Exposition, United States, American Negro, Professor Booker, Tuskegee Institute, Civil War, Governor Bullock, Harvard University, Lady Principal, New England, Board of Directors, City Council, Emancipation Proclamation, Miss Mary, Music Hall, Negro Building, Negro Conference, Porter Hall, President Eliot, Alabama Hall New!
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- The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions) by W. E. B. Du Bois in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington in Front Matter
- New South (Yale chronicles of America series) by Holland Thompson on page 166
- Roger Wolcott by William Lawrence on page 209
- Souls of Black Folk (Bl04) by Dubois in Front Matter
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