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Up from Slavery (Unabridged Classics in Audio)

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Up from Slavery (Unabridged Classics in Audio)

by: Booker T Washington

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Binding: MP3 CD
EAN: 9781400152674
Edition: MP3 Una
Format: Audiobook, CD, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
ISBN: 1400152674
Label: Tantor Media
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Tantor Media
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: September 05, 2006
Publisher: Tantor Media
Studio: Tantor Media

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Autobiography of influential spokesman and former slave who became a major figure in the struggle for equal rights. Booker T. Washington's American classic recounts his triumph over the legacy of slavery, his founding of the Tuskegee Institute, and his emergence as a national spokesperson for his race.

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Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society.

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