Up from Slavery

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One of the inspirational and moving autobiographies ever written. It chronicles the life of Booker T. Washington from his birth as a slave to his eventual triumph against the odds as he became one of The us’s leading educators and reformers. One can not but feel for him as he describes the horrors of his early life with complete honesty. This in reality motivational book is an all-time classic!
Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington’s Up from Slavery is without doubt one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-assist inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as a very powerful leader of his people, with slogans like “cast down your buckets,” which emphasized vocational merit somewhat than the academic and political excellence championed by his recent rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many thought to be him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic “Atlanta Compromise” speech of 1895, believed that “political agitation on my own would not save [the Negro],” and that “property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character” would prove necessary to black Americans’ success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society.

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