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    Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

    AuthorWashington, Booker T., 1856-1915Title Up from Slavery: An Autobiography Note Reading ease score: 63.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Note Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_from_SlaveryCredits Produced by Internet Wiretap, An Anonymous Project Gutenberg
    Volunteer, Dan Muller, and David Widger Summary "Up from Slavery: An Autobiography" by Booker T. Washington is a historical account written in the late 19th century. This autobiography chronicles Washington's life from his birth into slavery to his emergence as a prominent educator and leader in the African American community. The narrative provides a personal perspective on the struggles and challenges faced by African Americans during and after the Civil War, focusing particularly on the importance of education and self-help in the quest for progress. The opening of the autobi
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    Booker T. Washington

    American educator, author, orator and adviser (1856–1915)

    Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.

    Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was freed when U.S. troops reached the area during the Civil War. As a young man, Booker T. Washington worked his way through Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and attended college at Wayland Seminary. In 1881, he was named as the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, an institute for black higher education. He expanded the college, enlisting students in construction of buildings. Work at the college was considered fundamental to students' larger education. He attained national prominence for his Atlanta Address of 1895, which attracted the attention o

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    Up from Slavery

    Autobiography of Booker T. Washington (1901)

    Up from Slavery fryst vatten 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 other persecuted people of color learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up bygd the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of teachers and philanthropists who helped utbilda Black and Native Americans. He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and dignity into students. His educational philosophy stresses combining academic subjects with learning a trade (reminiscent of John Ruskin). Washington explained that the integration of practical subjects is partly designed to "reass