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This volume is like a trip in time!
Booker T. leaps off the pages of this dusty volume and he is a living breathing person. His charisma and energy left me exhausted. One day he is making bricks for his college, the next he is touring New England to raise funds. His wives and friends die of exhaustion around him. I read this book by mistake. I thought it was an assignment for a class(the actual assignment was a thin biography). I took this thick and dusty volume full of footnotes on vacation to the mountains. I decided to skim it and avoid the footnotes. After the first chapter, I read every footnote and the entire volume.These are Booker's journal entries and personal papers.He literally steps out of the pages and you are totally emersed in the beginnings of Tuckaseegee and every aspect of his life. He makes the time and place as real as if you were there. I actually became exhausted by his energy and the mountain of activities he was engaged in at the time.Prior to reading this book, I was not interested in him at all. After reading it, I think he is one of history's underrated characters. This is perhaps one of the most fascinating journals I have ever read on the art of leadership. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1911.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This book traces the last days of the life of Booker T. Washington, Founder of Tuskegee Institute now known as Tuskegee University. He was on vacation in Mobile, Alabama from Sept. 18, 1915 through Oct. 1, 1915 where he relaxed, fished and hunted. On October 17, 1915 he made his last speech to the student body on the importance of teamwork. His last public appearance was in New Haven, CT. on Oct. 25, 1915. A week later while in New York the newspapers reported that he had a nervous breakdown and was ageing rapidly. The hospital record dated November 1, 1915 stated that he had no mental symptoms. After reviewing all the documentation using various sources, a professional nurse will show that Booker T. Washington was the victim of a cleverly planned assassination. Additionally, the death of this leader is associated with the 40 year Tuskegee Syphilis Study. This book is very thought provoking and interesting. It will make you want to look deeper into the story. The reader will see how this great leader enjoyed a restful vacation along the Gulf Coast and within 60 days he was dead and buried. His death changed the course of American history. See if you can figure out "WHO SILENCED BOOKER T. WASHINGTON?' ... Read more

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One of America's first leaders of the African American Community!Washington was born into slavery and was freed after the Civil War.He became educated throught significant efforts on his part and became a teacher of young black students at the Tuskegee Institute.his story is a reminder of the hell some people live in and the miracle of his determination to bmake his life whole! He tells us, "no man can damage his soul so much by making him hate him." ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Originally published in 1915.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Lesser known, but not lesser work
This was actually BTW's first autobiography. Most people only know of him through UP FROM SLAVERY and the ATLANTA EXPOSITION ADDRESS (often later referred to as the "Atlanta Compromise"). But this is a really interesting work. More candid than his later writings (this was originally written in 1900), he scolds South Carolina's racist Senator Benjamin Tillman for Jim Crowing blacks in SC ("if you think education is expensive, try ignorance"). He also gets raw on the Louisiana Legislature for similar reasons ("I once heard a white boy say "I have seen a man hanged, now I'd like to see one burned." Before I hear a remark like that from one of my sons, I would rather see him in his grave."). This does a lot to expand the public image of BTW from simply that as an "Uncle Tom." There was far more to him than met the eye, and this book shows it. ... Read more

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Negro education not a failure : address by Booker T. Washington in the concert hall of Madison Square Garden, New York, Lincoln's birthday, February 12, 1904. is a historical publication which is considered to be one of the top primary source publications on the subjects of African American's and slavery. Qontro Historical Reprints is republishing high quality copies of the original publications to allow those conducting research, collectors of this type of historical documents to obtain complete copies of the original documents as they were published. Our reprints are of the highest quality and we take pride in publishing high quality editions of all publications that we produce. ... Read more

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A biography telling the life story of Booker T. Washington, along with his accomplishments toward promoting the education of African Americans. Written in graphic-novel format. ... Read more

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This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains several works by Booker T. Washington, including his autobiography 'Up From Slavery.'Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.

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Up From Slavery
The Future of the American Negro
Industrial Education for the Negro
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Here in one omnibus edition are Booker T. Washington's most important books. Washington was constantly, and often bitterly, criticized by his contemporaries for being too conciliatory to whites and not concerned enough about civil rights. It would not be until after his death that the world would find out that he had indeed worked a great deal for civil rights anonymously behind the scenes.Up from Slavery is one of the most influential biographies ever written. On one level it is the life story of Booker T. Washington and his rise from slavery to accomplished educator and activist. On another level it the story of how an entire race strove to better itself. Washington makes it clear just how far race relations in America have come, and to some extent, just how much further they have to go. Written with wit and clarity.In My Larger Education, Booker T. Washington explains how he came by his positions on race relations, by describing the people who influenced him during the founding of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Alabama.In Character Building are thirty seven addresses that Booker T. Washington gave before students, faculty, and guests at the Tuskegee Institute. These addresses take the form of timeless advice on a number of subjects. Very motivational and uplifting.Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. Included are "Industrial Education for the Negro" by Booker T. Washington, "The Talented Tenth" by W.E. Burghardt DuBois, "The Disfranchisement of the Negro" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Negro and the Law" by Wilford H. Smith, "The Characteristics of the Negro People" by H.T. Kealing, and "Representative American Negroes" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. ... Read more