The Booker T. Washington Reader: Up From Slavery: An Autobiography; My Larger Education; Character Building; The Negro Problem

by Booker T. Washington

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway. Table of Contents The Future of the American NegroHeroes in Black SkinsThe Negro Problem (also W.E. Burghardt DuBois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Wilford H. Smith, H.T. Kealing, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. Thomas Fortune)Up from Slavery: an Autobiography Addresses in Memory of Carl SchurzAtlanta Compromise address by African-American leader Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895. Given to a predominantly White audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, the speech has been recognized as one of the most important and influential speeches in American history. Appendix:Booker T. Washington Biography

Genres: Classics, History

420 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 9, 2009

About the author

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 organizer and central figure of a network linking like-minded black leaders throughout the nation and in effect spoke for Black America throughout his lifetime. Meanwhile a more militant northern group, led by W. E. B. Du Bois rejected Washington's self-help and demanded recourse to politics, referring to the speech dismissively as "The Atlanta Compromise". The critics were marginalized until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, at which point more radical black leaders rejected Washington's philosophy and demanded federal civil rights laws.

Reviews

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

We read the Atlanta Exposition Address for my African American history class to learn how he and W.E.B. DuBois differed in how they were fighting for civil rights. It was an interesting reading and while I've never really been interested in his speeches I'm glad I had a chance to read it. I think he and DuBois both had good ideas for what they needed and probably would have worked well together to accomplish more.

[Gonzalo Nicolás · Rating 3 out of 5]

A book to remember that all races are equal and they have the same capacities to progress if they have some opportunities.