Up from Slavery
Author: Booker Washington
ISBN: 9781454949992
Publisher: Union Square
Year first published: 01 Nov 2023
Pages:
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
ISBN: 9781454949992
Publisher: Union Square
Year first published: 01 Nov 2023
Pages:
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
