Up from Slavery

This edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal experiences in working to rise from a slave child during the Civil War to a successful and influential orator, educator and community leader. In it he describes the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education and establish schools to help black people and other minorities learn useful, marketable skills. It is a call to action for black ...