Booker T. Washington
- Books on site
- 1
- Total words
- 73,400
- Reading time
- 4.1 h
- Years covered
- 1901
- Longest
- Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington (1856 – 1915) was born into slavery in Franklin County, Virginia, and after emancipation worked in the salt furnaces and coal mines of West Virginia before walking to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in 1872. He taught there and in 1881 was chosen to found a normal school at Tuskegee, Alabama, which he built into the leading institution of industrial education for African Americans. His address at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition in 1895 made him the most prominent Black American of his generation and the most contested; Up from Slavery (1901) is his own account of that ascent.
1free edition73,400words on site~4.1 hreading time1901years covered
Up from Slavery| Year | Title | Words | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | Up from Slavery | 73,400 | ~5 h |
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