The Story of My Life and Work (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

by Booker T. Washington, Marcus Bruce (Introduction)

Overview

In the summer of 1899, Booker T. Washington visited Europe to rest from his demanding schedule. Yet everywhere he turned, he encountered French and American scholars, politicians, businessmen, abolitionists, and average citizens eager to hear him tell the story of his life. The former slave had earned a college degree, taught at the black freedman college Hampton Institute, gained a national reputation touring the country as an educational lecturer, founded a successful industrial college for African Americans, received an honorary degree from Harvard, and delivered a single speech that was heard across the country and which transformed Americans understanding of their racial problems. This is his life story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781435108394
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	12/15/2008
Series:	Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	630,796
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Born a slave on a small farm in the Virginia backcountry, Booker T. Washington went on to found Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. He secured his influence by delivering The Atlanta Compromise Address before the Cotton States Exposition in 1895 and went on to found the National Negro Business League. He was an advisor to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.