Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black ecomic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like cast down your buckets, which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic Atlanta Compromise speech of 1895, believed that political agitation alone would t save [the Negro], and that property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. -- This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
CreateSpace
ISBN-10
1453699090
ISBN-13
9781453699096
eBay Product ID (ePID)
188436967
Product Key Features
Author
Booker T Washington
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback / Softback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: General
Additional Product Features
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
01/07/2010
Country of Publication
United States
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