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Up from Slavery
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...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks