The dramatic autobiographical account of Booker T. Washington's unique
American experience--a struggle against social and ideological bias that
he began as a slave and never stopped.
"Washington's story of himself, as half-seen by himself, is one of
America's most revealing books."--Langston Hughes
Historically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful and
persuasive orators, Booker T. Washington consistently challenged the
forces of racial prejudice at a time when such behavior from a black man
was unheard of. While his stance on the separation of the races would
become controversial, he worked tirelessly to convince blacks to work
together as one people in order to improve their lives and the future of
their race. *
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Spanning from his fight for education through his founding of the
world-renowned Tuskegee Institute, Washington's Up from Slavery
remains one of the most significant and defining works in American
literature.