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 |
| Publication date: | 17th August 2023 |
| Author: | Booker T Washington |
| Publisher: | Union Square & Co. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Signature Editions |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history |