Up from slavery
By: by Booker T. Washington
Publisher: Millennium Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781508483113
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; Educators; Tuskegee Institute
Description: Autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal experiences in working to rise 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 University, to his work establishing vocational schools -- most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama -- to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps.
Notes: Originally published as a serialized work in The Outlook, 1900, and as a volume by Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901.