Title: Booker T. Washington
Subtitle: Volume 1: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901
First published: February 13, 1975
Description: Traces the African American educator's climb to fame and power from his lowly beginnings in a Virginia log cabin in 1865 to a celebrated dinner at the White House in 1901.
Subjects: African American educators, Biography, African Americans, Slaves, African American civil rights workers, African American political activists, African American politicians