Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
Author of Up from Slavery
About the Author
Booker Taliaferro Washington, 1856 - 1915 Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Hales Ford, Virginia, near Roanoke. After the U.S. government freed all slaves in 1865, his family moved to Malden, West Virginia. There, Washington worked in coal mines and salt furnaces. He went on to attend the show more Hampton, Virginia Normal and Agricultural Institute from 1872-1875 before joining the staff in 1879. In 1881 he was selected to head the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, a new teacher-training school for blacks, which he transformed into a thriving institution, later named Tuskegee University. His controversial conviction that blacks could best gain equality in the U.S. by improving their economic situation through education rather than by demanding equal rights was termed the Atlanta Compromise, because Washington accepted inequality and segregation for blacks in exchange for economic advancement. Washington advised two Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, on racial problems and policies, as well as influencing the appointment of several blacks to federal offices. Washington became a shrewd political leader and advised not only Presidents, but also members of Congress and governors. He urged wealthy people to contribute to various black organizations. He also owned or financially supported many black newspapers. In 1900, Washington founded the National Negro Business League to help black business firms. Washington fought silently for equal rights, but was eventually usurped by those who ideas were more radical and demanded more action. Washington was replaced by W. E. B. Du Bois as the foremost black leader of the time, after having spent long years listening to Du Bois deride him for his placation of the white man and the plight of the negro. He died in 1915. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery / The Souls of Black Folk / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (2007) — Contributor — 57 copies
Up from Slavery with Selected Slaves Narratives (New York Public Library Collector's Editions) (1998) 34 copies
The Negro in the South: His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development (1970) 19 copies
The Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) (2007) 9 copies
A new Negro for a new century an accurate and up-to-date record of the upward struggles of the Negro race. 1 (1900) 6 copies
Booker T. Washington Collection: The Negro Problem, Up from Slavery, the Future of the American Negro, the History of… (2019) 5 copies
Up From Slavery and The Atlanta Compromise Speech: Illustrated Black History Collection (2020) 4 copies
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 4: 1895-98. Assistant editors, Stuart B. Kaufman, Barbara S. Kraft, and Raymond W.… (1975) 3 copies
Black-belt diamonds; gems from the speeches, addresses, and talks to students of Booker T. Washington (2022) 3 copies
African American Heritage Anthology #2 : My Larger Education; Narrative of Sojourner Truth; Character Building; Life… (2017) 2 copies
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 1: The Autobiographical Writings. Assistant editor, John W. Blassingame (1972) 2 copies
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 3: 1889-95. Assistant editors, Stuart B. Kaufman and Raymond W. Smock (Booker T.… (1974) 2 copies
Education not exclusive : extracts from an address to Tuskegee students by Booker T. Washington 1 copy
Atlantic Exposition Address 1 copy
My Struggle for an Education 1 copy
The Classic Slave Narratives: Seven Complete Slave Narratives (African American History) (2015) 1 copy
Up from Slavery & Souls of Black Folk & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Black Protest and the Great Migration (2006) 1 copy
Abraham Lincoln 1 copy
The Works of Booker T. Washington: Up From Slavery: An Autobiography & My Larger Education (2013) 1 copy
Ylös orjuudesta 1 copy
Washington Up from Slavery 1 copy
Associated Works
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contributor — 153 copies
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contributor — 73 copies
Twelve Years a Slave / Life of Frederick Douglass / Uncle Tom's Cabin / Life of Josiah Henson / Incidents in the Life… (2014) — Contributor — 58 copies
Slave Narrative (Six Pack 3) - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 22 Years a Slave, Escaping in a Chest, Up from… (2015) — Contributor — 3 copies
African American Literature: A Concise Anthology from Frederick Douglass to Toni Morrison (2009) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Washington, Booker Taliaferro
- Other names
- Taliaferro, Booker
- Birthdate
- 1856-04-05
- Date of death
- 1915-11-04
- Burial location
- Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Hale's Ford, Virginia, USA
- Place of death
- Tuskegee, Alabama, USA
- Places of residence
- Hale's Ford, Virginia, USA
Malden, West Virginia, USA
Tuskegee, Alabama, USA - Education
- Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) (BA|1875)
Wayland Seminary (now Virginia Union University) (MA|1879) - Occupations
- teacher
professor
principal
college president
presidential adviser
lecturer (show all 10)
fundraiser
spokesman
essayist
coal miner - Organizations
- Tuskegee Institute (founder and president)
Hampton Institute
National Negro Business League (founder) - Awards and honors
- Honorary Masters degree from Harvard University (1896)
Honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College (1901)
First black American to be invited to the White House
First black American on a U.S. stamp
First black American on a U.S. coin
Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington (show all 9)
Booker T. Washington National Monument
Booker T. Washington Memorial
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