Up from Slavery

An Autobiography

von Booker T. Washington

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.  

• Reihe: Signature Classics
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein Historisch, politisch, militärisch Historisch, politisch, militärisch
• ISBN: 9781454949992
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2023
• Größe: 199 x 130 mm
• Verlag: Union Square & Co.