Up from Slavery

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An Autobiography

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 court cases. His memoir is both a crucial American document and an exercise in understanding the double consciousness coined by W.E.B. DuBois, himself one of Washington s most vocal critics.