Up from slavery : an autobiography / Booker T. Washington.

Born into slavery on a Virginia plantation, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) educated himself tirelessly in the years after the American Civil War. In 1881, he was appointed head of the Tuskegee Institute, a teacher-training college for African Americans. As a writer, orator and fundraiser, he becam...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author:	Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:	Cambridge library collection. Slavery and abolition.
Subjects:	Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915. Freed persons > United States > Biography. African American educators > Biography. Educators > United States > Biography. African American educators. Educators. Freed persons. United States. Autobiographies. Biographies.