Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington.
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TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublication details: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1986.Description: liii, 332 p. ; 19 cmISBN: - 0140390510
- 1417703989 (Topeka)
- 9780140390513
- 9781417703982 (Topeka)
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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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Originally published: New York : Doubleday, Page, 1901.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xliv-lii) and index.
Introduction / Louis R. Harlan -- Notes to the introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Suggestions for further reading -- Note on the text -- Notes.
The Black educator documents his struggle for freedom and self-respect and his fight to establish industrial training programs