![]() ![]() ![]() I get easily discouraged, so it was with a mixture of shame and outright inspiration that I listened to "Up from Slavery". This is the true-life story of a man of real courage and dedication.īooker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915), founder of Tuskegee Institute, was a leading educator, author, and statesman who rose from slavery to become internationally famous. Employing a didactic tone, Washington deftly sets forth his belief that the Black man’s salvation lies in education, industriousness, and self-reliance. He gives an account of his travels, speeches, and meetings with various leaders, including Theodore Roosevelt in the White House. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his years as founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which was devoted to helping minorities learn useful, marketable skills. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the "do-it-yourself" idea. ![]()
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