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How much do you know about Booker T. Washington? Find out the facts you need to know about this famous teacher and leader. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American.

From Chelsea House’s Black Americans of Achievement series comes a biography of the great statesman.

A biography telling the life story of Booker T. Washington, along with his accomplishments toward promoting the education of African Americans.

Booker Washington, a visionary educator, author, and advocate for African American rights, shares his remarkable journey from enslavement to becoming one of the most influential figures in American history. His words resonate with passion, resilience, and an unwavering belief in the human spirit's boundless potential. With his engaging storytelling style, Booker Washington takes you on a transformative exploration of personal growth, success, and the pursuit of excellence.

It is not hyperbole to say that Booker T. Washington was a great American. For 20 years before his death, he had been the most useful, as well as the most distinguished, member of his race in the world, and one of the most useful, as well as one of the most distinguished, of American citizens of any race.

The story of an enslaved African American. Booker T. Washington was an author, an educator, an orator and political leader, and one of history's most influential African Americans. One if his more remembered quotes is: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” He titled his autobiography Up from Slavery.

Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the "do-it-yourself" idea. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his years as founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which was devoted to helping minorities learn useful, marketable skills.

Born and raised a slave, Booker T. Washington rose from subjugation to become the voice of post-Reconstruction black America. In his 1901 autobiography, Washington chronicles more than forty years of his life, from his childhood on a Virginia plantation to founding an Alabama school for freedmen and minorities. At the heart of Washington’s teachings were the inspiring qualities he himself possessed in order to climb: self-reliance, hard work, perseverance, and a passion for education.

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington, sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help black people learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and Native Americans.

Born into slavery, Booker Washington suddenly gained his freedom after the American Civil War. This is a firsthand account from a slave around the events of the Emancipation Proclamation. The book covers the inspiring story of a young man as he works to rise up from being enslaved as a child, overcoming massive obstacles to obtain an education, to eventually become an advisor to the president.

The most famous and admired Black man of his era because of his calm but passionate commitment to Blacks to rise by practical work, as well as to higher artistic and intellectual callings. Admired and followed by such different leaders as General George Patton, Harvard President Charles Elliot, W.E.B. DuBois, Susan B. Anthony, Presidents Cleveland and McKinley, and Queen Victoria.

Booker Taliaferro Washington was born in a southern plantation. He was a son of a black slave woman and unknown white man. His mother worked as a cook in a house of plantation owners. In childhood he idn't have a surname as other slaves, but after the American Civil War that set the black slaves free Booker chose the surname of the first American President George Washington.

Discover the cornerstone texts that shaped African-American literary history with this indispensable collection. Featuring three seminal works spanning the 19th and early 20th centuries—Booker T. Washington's journey "Up From Slavery", W. E. B. Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk" and Frederick Douglass's powerful "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"—these iconic narratives offer profound insight into the struggle of African-Americans for equality and justice.

The arduous task of overthrowing Jim Crow codes and legislation marked one of the first strides toward the modern struggle for ethnic equality in American society and required nearly a century of struggle. That effort spawned a multitude of heroic African American activists, but it is remembered in large part for the work of two iconic African American men of stature. Much like their later counterparts, the debate between gradual integration through temporary accommodation and overtly insistent activism was led by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Booker T. Washington: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Civil Rights Activist chronicles the life and work that made him one of America’s most influential men. You will learn about Booker T. Washington like never before.

Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary Black elite. This is his story. Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over 30 internationally best-selling biographies, including the London Sunday Times best seller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison.

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was an educator, author, intellectual and orator, who founded Tuskegee University in 1881. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the most prominent leader in the African American community.

Simple advise that was originally written in 1909, now updated and modernized slightly to be available to you. The advice in this book has really been tested over the course of time. It is a short listen that includes some fantastic pointers on attitude and philosophy, simple pointers and perspectives that can really help you shape you life moving forwards.

Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington became a leading African American intellectual of the 19th century, founding Tuskegee University in 1881 and the National Negro Business League two decades later. He defines the term "industrial education" as learning the necessities to become a valuable member of society and the ability to apply this knowledge to industrial business. Washington explains the emphasis he applies to industrial education by referring to the different educational dispensations in the northern and southern states.

Booker T. Washington was an influential black intellectual and educator who founded Tuskegee University in 1881. His article, The Case of the Negro first appeared in the November 1899 issue of The Atlantic. In it, he discusses the various options to improve the lives of his people. Washington warned about the severe competition and the unfriendly influence of labor organizations that existed in the North.