Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

by Booker T. Washington

Overview

UP FROM SLAVERY is the autobiography of influential African-American author and educator Booker T. Washington. He recounts his early life as a slave to becoming educated, achieving a measure of success, and becoming head of the Tuskegee Institute in the late 19th century. Washington is famous for his "Atlanta Compromise," in which he advocated a temporary accommodation with Jim Crow, and that the surest way for blacks to achieve equality "industry, thrift, intelligence and property," rather than agitation or legal action.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013849129
Publisher:	Halcyon Press Ltd.
Publication date:	12/16/2011
Series:	Halcyon Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	520 KB

About the Author

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was a respected and influential African-American author and educator, one of the key early figures in the ongoing struggle for Civil Rights in the latter decades of the 19th century. Washington was born into slavery, but after the Civil War became a leading educator and advocate for African-Americans.