An autobiography in which Booker T. Washington, the son of a slave woman and a white man, discusses how he rose from slavery to become one of the most influential African-American leaders in the U.S., and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Presents the autobiography of Bookter T. Washington, a man who, though born in slavery, escaped bondage, educated himself, and went on to found Tuskegee Institute.