Booker T. Washington
Character Building
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Booker T. Washington
Character Building is a compilation of speeches, given by Mr. Booker T. Washington, to the students and staff of the Tuskegee Normal and Ind…
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
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Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War…
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (version 2)
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Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the posi…
The Negro Problem
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This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift …
The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1
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This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, an…
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (version 3)
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Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave…
The Future of the American Negro
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Booker T. Washington
The history of African American enslavement, freedom from slavery, and the need for education as a prerequisite for success. - Summary by ki…
The Story of My Life and Work
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The legacy of Booker T. Washington has inspired leaders for racial equality for over a century. He rose from a slave family to be adviser t…
The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children
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From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored c…
Putting the Most Into Life
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The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 074
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Twenty-one short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "We must learn to dignify common labor." Booker T. Washington spoke plain…
Frederick Douglass
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An account of the life of Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery to become one of the most important and influential abolitionists, authors…
My Larger Education
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This is a sequel to Washington's first autobiographical book, Up From Slavery, which depicted his early life. He says "This book contai…
The Story of Slavery
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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington, the author of the following sketch of slavery in America, was himself born a slave, and the story of his life begins w…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 089
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"From vocalists you may learn much, but do not believe all that they say." Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians is replete …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 090
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In his autobiographical essay "The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob," Booker T. Washington wrote: "It is not argument, nor cr…
First Chapter Collection 009
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The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we off…