This volume is dedicated to my Wife, Margaret James Washington, and to my Brother, John H. Washington, whose patience, fidelity and hard work have gone far to make the work at Tuskegee successful.
Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Booker T. Washington
The son of a slave, Booker Taliaferro Washington worked his way out the salt furnaces and coal mines to develop the esteemed Tuskegee Institute. This autobiographical work demonstrates his forceful and potent voice in the fight for African-American equality in turn-of-the-century America.