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"Autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal experiences in working to rise from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools -- most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama -- to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves,...

"African American educator, author, speaker, and advisor to presidents of the United States, Booker Taliaferro Washington was the leading voice of former slaves and their descendants during the late 1800s. As part of the last generation of leaders born into slavery, Booker believed that blacks could better progress in society through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to directly challenge the Jim Crow segregation." --

A biography of the former slave who founded Tuskegee University and later became the most powerful African American leader at the turn of the century.

"Uncle Tom or New Negro? does much more than provide yet another critical edition of Washington's memoir. Instead, Rebecca Carroll has interviewed an outstanding array of African American luminaries."--BOOK JACKET.

From Chelsea House's Black Americans of Achievement series comes a biography of the great statesman.