Up From Slaveryby Booker T. Washington | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"U.S. History - Cultural" |
| Pages: | 241 |
| Year of Publication: | 1900 |
| Date Added: | 03/03/1999 |
| Date Read: | 05/12/1999 |
| Notes: | 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. COMMENTS — 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 not save the Negro," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to Black Americans' success. |
| My Rating: | 5 |