Booker T. Washington

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born

April 05, 1856 in Hale's Ford, Virginia, The United States

died

November 14, 1915

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male

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Social Sciences, Nonfiction

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Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, orator, author and the dominant leader of the African-American community nationwide from the 1890s to his death. Born to slavery and freed by the Civil War in 1865, as a young man, became head of the new Tuskegee Institute, then a teachers' college for blacks. It became his base of operations. His "Atlanta Exposition" speech of 1895 appealed to middle class whites across the South, asking them to give blacks a chance to work and develop separately, while implicitly promising not to demand the vote. White leaders across the North, from politicians to industrialists, from philanthropists to churchmen, enthusiastically supported Washington, as did most middle class blacks. He was the organ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 3,089 ratings · 259 reviews · 114 distinct works

	Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Ishmael Reed (Introduction) 3.92 avg rating — 2,885 ratings — published 1901 — 111 editions	My rating:
	Three Negro Classics by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson 3.83 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1965 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Up From Slavery: The Autobiography Of Booker T. Washington by Booker T. Washington, Timeless Classic Books (Designer) 4.52 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Frederick Douglass 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1969 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Negro Problem 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1903 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Negro in the South by Booker T. Washington, Herbert Aptheker (Foreword) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1907 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Story of My Life and Work (Illustrated Edition) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Future of the American Negro 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1969 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Voices of Black America: Historical Recordings of Speeches, Poetry, Humor & Drama 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Black American Classics: Eleven books in a single file by Booker T. Washington, Charles W. Chesnutt, W.E.B DuBois 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

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“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
― Booker T. Washington

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“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company”
― Booker T. Washington

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