Up from Slavery (Penguin Classics) [Paperback] Booker Washington

Author: Booker Washington

Brand: Penguin

Color: Black

Edition: Reprint

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 400

Release Date: 01-01-1986

Part Number: 9780140390513

Details: Product Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

In
Up from Slavery, Washington recounts the story of his life—from slave to educator. The early sections deal with his upbringing as a slave and his efforts to get an education. Washington details his transition from student to teacher, and outlines his own development as an educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. In the final chapters of
Up From Slavery, Washington describes his career as a public speaker and civil rights activist.

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About the Author
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was born a slave on a Virginia farm. Later freed, he headed and developed the Tuskegee Institute and became a leader in education. Widely considered a spokesman for his people, he emphasized social concern in three books as well as his autobiography.

Louis R. Harlan, born in Clay County, Mississippi, in 1922, is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of
Separate and Unequal (University of North Carolina Press, 1958) and of a two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington (Oxford University Press, 1972, 1983). He is the editor, with Raymond W. Smock, of
The Booker T. Washington Papers (13 vols., University of Illinois Press, 1972-84). He has been awarded the Beveridge Prize, Bancroft Prize, and Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Washington.

EAN: 9780140390513

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches

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