In stock
A01=Booker T. Washington
Abraham Lincoln
african american studies
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
american history
Author_Booker T. Washington
automatic-update
black activists
black education
black memoirs
black studies
book washington
booker t. washington
booker washington
books about slavery
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=BGHA
Category=DNBH1
Category=HBTB
Category=NHTB
civil rights
civil war
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
famous black americans
frederick douglas
frederick douglass
HBCUs
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
racism
reconstruction
reconstruction era
signature classics
slavery
softlaunch
tuskegee
Tuskegee institute
tuskgee
up from slavery
US civil war
US history
W.E.B. dubois
web du bois
WEB DuBois
Product details
- ISBN 9781454949992
- Dimensions: 133 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 17 Aug 2023
- Publisher: Union Square & Co.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Booker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first president of Tuskegee University. A tireless advocate for Black economic independence, Washington attempted to balance his public acceptance of segregation with behind-the-scenes lobbying against voter disenfranchisement and financing anti–Jim Crow court cases. His memoir is both a crucial American document and an exercise in understanding the “double consciousness” coined by W.E.B. DuBois, himself one of Washington’s most vocal critics.
Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was born in Franklin County, Virginia. At twenty-five he became the first principal of the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers, now Tuskegee University. He spent his life working tirelessly to advocate on behalf of Black Americans.
