Up from Slavery Summary
Booker T. Washington

Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington Ateacher and former slave, Booker T. Washington founded and ran the Tuskegee Institute beginning in 1881, a school for African Americans in rural Alabama. Bu... Read more

Preface This volume is the outgrowth of a series of articles, dealing with incidents in my life, which were published consecutively in the Outlook.  While they were appearing in that magazine I w... Read more

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915), African American educator and racial leader, founded Tuskegee Institute for black students. His "Atlanta Compromise" speech made him America's major black lea... Read more

Slavery and putting those less unfortunate in bondage is probably the most oppressive quality of human nature. Slavery has been in existence since the beginning of man and remai... Read more