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Booker T. Washington's classic autobiography, detailing his life from his childhood as a slave child, through the Civil War and into his founding of the Tuskegee Institute.

This Townsend Library classic has been carefully edited to be more accessible to today's students. It includes a background note about the book, an author's biography, and a lively afterword. Acclaimed by educators nationwide, the Townsend Library is helping millions of young... Read Full Overview

Up From Slavery is an autobiographical work by Booker T. Washington, an African American educator and civil rights leader. The book chronicles Washington's life from his childhood as a slave in Virginia to his rise as a prominent figure in American society. Washington describes... Read Full Overview

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"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

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"Up from Slavery" is the autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute,... Read Full Overview

First published serially in the Christian newspaper "The Outlook" in 1900, "Up from Slavery" is the classic autobiography of one of the most controversial figures in American history, Booker T. Washington. "Up from Slavery", recounts Washington's rise from a Virginia tobacco... Read Full Overview

Booker T. Washington was of the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants, who were newly oppressed by disfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws. He mastered the nuances of the... Read Full Overview