TY - BOOK AU - Washington,Booker T. TI - Up from Slavery: An Autobiography AV - E151 PY - 2000/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Tuskegee Institute KW - Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 KW - African Americans -- Biography KW - Educators -- United States -- Biography N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_from_Slavery; Release date is 2000-10-01; Internet Wiretap, An Anonymous Project Gutenberg Volunteer, Dan Muller, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Up from Slavery: An Autobiography" by Booker T. Washington is an autobiography published in 1901. It chronicles Washington's journey from being enslaved during the Civil War to becoming an influential educator. The book describes his struggles to gain education at Hampton Institute and his founding of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Washington advocates for vocational training and practical skills as a path for Black Americans to achieve economic independence and ease racial tensions in the post-Reconstruction South, a philosophy that sparked both acclaim and controversy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2376 ER -