Up From Slavery
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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, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to helping black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps.— Excerpted from Up From Slavery on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
Booker T. Washington
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.
[edit] Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter I: A Slave Among Slaves
- Chapter II: Boyhood Days
- Chapter III: The Struggle for Education
- Chapter IV: Helping Others
- Chapter V: The Reconstruction Period
- Chapter VI: Black Race and Red Race
- Chapter VII: Early Days at Tuskegee
- Chapter VIII: Teaching School in a Stable and a Hen-House
- Chapter IX: Anxious Days and Sleepless Nights
- Chapter X: A Harder Task than Making Bricks Without Straw
- Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them
- Chapter XII: Raising Money
- Chapter XIII: Two Thousand Miles for A Five-Minute Speech
- Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
- Chapter XV: The Secret of Sucess in Public Speeking
- Chapter XVI: Europe
- Chapter XVII: Last Words
