Up from Slavery: an Autobiography

By Booker T. Washington

Up from Slavery: an Autobiography - Booker T. Washington
  • Release Date: 2010-01-01
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

Description

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from 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.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.