Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Author: Washington, Booker T
ISBN: 9781454949992
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Publisher,Union Square
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Format, Paperback
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No. of Pages, 240
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Shelf: Fiction / Adult Fiction / Literature
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Booker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first president of Tuskegee University. A tireless advocate for Black economic independence, Washington attempted to balance his public acceptance of segregation with behind-the-scenes lobbying against voter disenfranchisement and financing anti–Jim Crow court cases. His memoir is both a crucial American document and an exercise in understanding the “double consciousness” coined by W.E.B. DuBois, himself one of Washington’s most vocal critics.
