Up From Slavery

Booker T. Washington's autobiography sees him rising from slavery to freedom, from poverty and illiteracy to an honorary degree from Harvard and relationships with Presidents and world leaders. Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and b...