Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

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.

Author: Booker T. Washington
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Published: 05/09/2023
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.50w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781454949992
ISBN10: 1454949996
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | African American & Black
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- History | Social History

About the Author

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was born in Franklin County, Virginia. At twenty-five he became the first principal of the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers, now Tuskegee University. He spent his life working tirelessly to advocate on behalf of Black Americans.