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Booker T. Washington

Born

in Hale's Ford, Virginia, The United States

April 05, 1856

Died

November 14, 1915

Genre

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: 4.12 · 40,905 ratings · 2,891 reviews · 358 distinct works • Similar authors

	Up from Slavery 4.11 avg rating — 34,753 ratings — published 1900 — 1380 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Negro Classics by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson 4.19 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 1910 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Negro Problem by Booker T. Washington (Editor), W.E.B. Du Bois (Contributor), Charles W. Chesnutt (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 1903 — 137 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Character Building 4.34 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 1910 — 146 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frederick Douglass 4.04 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1899 — 192 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Future of the American Negro 4.14 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1899 — 134 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heroes in black skins 4.27 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of My Life and Work 4.15 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2004 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Negro in the South by Booker T. Washington, Herbert Aptheker (Foreword) 4.25 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1907 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Larger Education: Chapters from My Experience 4.44 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2004 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Booker T. Washington

The Booker T. Washington Papers (15 books)
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Booker T. Washington,

Barbara R Kraft (Editor),

Louis R Harlan (Editor),

Raymond Smock (Editor)

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Quotes by Booker T. Washington (?)

“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

tags: success

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

tags: hate, hatred

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“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

tags: charity, compassion, happiness, helping-others, service

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