false <![CDATA[Up from Slavery]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178732859m/827685.jpg 827685 35 19th-century African American businessman, activist & educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's <I>Up from Slavery</I> is one of the greatest autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership & selfhelp inspired generations of leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X & Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, he recounts ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to 34 years as president of the agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There he reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," emphasizing vocational merit rather than the academic & political excellence championed by his contemporary W.E.B. DuBois. Tho many considered him accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as stated in his historic Atlanta Compromise speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save" & that "property, industry, skill, intelligence & character" would prove necessary to black success. The potency of his beliefs are alive today in the nationalist & conservative camps composing the complex quilt of black American society. 358903 1901 Up from Slavery total:675|5:194|4:233|3:186|2:48|1:14| 675 2570 1044 91 4 6 false false Mon Jul 28 05:52:38 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 05:38:45 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 05:52:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1976 Tue Jan 06 09:56:51 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 10:04:05 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 15:58:40 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 17:13:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1966 Sun Mar 22 19:37:03 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 19:48:40 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 20 09:35:10 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 09:56:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 09:06:28 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 10:18:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 03 23:34:57 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 09:41:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 19 04:49:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 04:49:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 26 06:15:47 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 15:33:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 17:02:59 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 15:14:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 true false Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 13:00:31 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 13:45:10 -0700 2008
Poignant:

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.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 25 11:38:30 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 11:40:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 06:52:53 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 10:45:30 -0700 2008
--(referring to the Ku Klux Klan) "To-day there are no such organizations in the South, and the fact that such ever existed is almost forgotten by both races. There...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 16 05:42:13 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 29 18:43:47 -0800 2008 Up From Slavery. Oftentimes, a book of rich historical value is notoriously unreadable (i.e. Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Caesar's The Conquest of ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Sep 27 13:14:33 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 24 19:53:37 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jun 07 12:09:59 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 07 12:20:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 05:59:53 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 15:35:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 21 05:59:09 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 21:33:12 -0800 2008
All up: I actually enjoyed this book, even though it was slow in some parts, ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 16:06:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 16:18:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 25 20:02:19 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 20:07:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=827685