Washington, Booker T.

The autobiography of the founder of the Tuskegee Institute, his rise from slavery to become a very influential American educator.

Booker T. Washington, the son of a slave woman and a white man, recounts his rise from slavery to become the most influential black leader of his time in the U.S., and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington is freed when he is nine years old.

Booker T. Washington, the son of a slave woman and a white man, recounts his rise from slavery to become the most influential black leader of his time in the U.S., and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

The Black educator documents his struggle for freedom and self-respect and his fight to establish industrial training programs.

Includes selections from the history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave; Life of Josiah Henson; Running a thousand miles for freedom, or, The escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery; The narrative of Bethany Veney, a slave woman; Memories of childhood slavery days by Annie L. Burton.