Books by Booker T. Washington

Koskettava kertomus pienestä, tummasta pojasta ja hänen vapautumisestaan orjuudesta.Kun Booker T. Washington syntyy, edes tarkka vuosiluku ei jää muistiin. Sellaisista asioista ei pidetä huolta, kun kyse on mustasta orjasta. Booker elää pienessä hökkelissä äitinsä ja sisarustensa kanssa. Hökkelissä sijaitsee myös plantaasin keittiö, sillä Bookerin äiti työskentelee keittäjänä. Isäänsä Booker ei tunne eikä tiedä tästä mitään – huhujen mukaan hän on valkoinen mies viereiseltä plantaasilta. Normaalit asiat, kuten sängyssä nukkuminen, tulevat Bookerille tutuiksi vasta siinä vaiheessa, kun orjat vapautuvat sisällissodan myötä. Vaan miten hökkelitalon pienestä pojasta tuleekaan arvostettu puhuja ja kirjailija?Ylös orjuudesta on kiehtova omaelämäkerrallinen teos Booker T. Washingtonilta. Hjalmar Mikanderin käännös on vuodelta 1904.Kirjailija ja puhuja Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) syntyi orjuuteen, mutta eli elämänsä loppuajan vapaana miehenä. Hänen tunnetuin teoksensa Ylös orjuudesta käsittelee Washingtonin omaa elämää.

A compilation of more than 30 addresses from Booker T. Washington explaining the importance of personal responsibility, self-reflection and economic independence in the Black community. Character Building is an inspiring series of anecdotes that speak to the issues of his contemporary audience. Booker T. Washington was a strong supporter of education and entrepreneurship among African Americans. He believed a degree or certification could provide access and elevate one's social and economic status. In Character Building, he provides his basic tenets of success that are rooted in individual behavior. He encourages productivity and the need for a positive home life. To succeed, each person's environment must be conducive to their goals. Washington's life-long mission was to inspire and uplift the most vulnerable in his community. In Character Building he discusses the many tools that can be used to change a person's station. It's an open declaration of the core beliefs that helped shaped his life. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Character Building is both modern and readable.

A compilation of more than 30 addresses from Booker T. Washington explaining the importance of personal responsibility, self-reflection and economic independence in the Black community. Character Building is an inspiring series of anecdotes that speak to the issues of his contemporary audience. Booker T. Washington was a strong supporter of education and entrepreneurship among African Americans. He believed a degree or certification could provide access and elevate one's social and economic status. In Character Building, he provides his basic tenets of success that are rooted in individual behavior. He encourages productivity and the need for a positive home life. To succeed, each person's environment must be conducive to their goals. Washington's life-long mission was to inspire and uplift the most vulnerable in his community. In Character Building he discusses the many tools that can be used to change a person's station. It's an open declaration of the core beliefs that helped shaped his life. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Character Building is both modern and readable.

From a child slave put to hard labor to a college president and advisor to presidents, Booker T. Washington¿s autobiography powerfully describes his journey and what it taught him about the possible future of Blacks in the United States.This autobiography is a cornerstone work of African-American literature. Washington tells of his experience in bondage as a child-slave, the hard labor he performed in salt mines post-slavery, and the role of his mother in demonstrating the strength and values that enabled him to continue to strive and rise above these often brutal circumstances. His hard-won education led him to become a teacher and build Tuskegee University with bare minimum resources, much of it literally one brick at a time. Despite these challenges, and encountering white opposition to the very concept of educating blacks, Washington believed that failing to make the university a reality would be a disservice to blacks nationwide. Inspiring throughout, the author advocates self-reliance through productive work, community service, and perseverance, and without bravado presents himself as a worthy example of how successful this path can be. His book still generates controversy as his conception of the rise of blacks through personal industry, leading gradually to their advancement in society, was deemed by some to be a slow and costly compromise. Others saw it as an example of pragmatic realism borne of necessity in the Reconstruction era South. Regardless of latter-day interpretations, Up From Slavery is a powerful document of how one man rose to prominence against terrible odds, then used his success and fame in a sustained attempt to better the lives of his fellows. This is an indispensable document of Black lives in an era scarcely more than 100 years in the past and its account of courage and dedication will not be forgotten.With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Up From Slavery is both modern and readable.

This biography, written by Booker T. Washington, one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers, is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical account is set within a nation struggling to solve one of the most excruciating social problems that any modern people facedslavery

This biography, written by Booker T. Washington, one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers, is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical account is set within a nation struggling to solve one of the most excruciating social problems that any modern people faced¿slavery

The dramatic autobiographical account of Booker T. Washington's unique American experience-a struggle against social and ideological bias that he began as a slave and never stopped. "Washington's story of himself, as half-seen by himself, is one of America's most revealing books."-Langston HughesHistorically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful and persuasive orators, Booker T. Washington consistently challenged the forces of racial prejudice at a time when such behavior from a black man was unheard of. While his stance on the separation of the races would become controversial, he worked tirelessly to convince blacks to work together as one people in order to improve their lives and the future of their race. Spanning from his fight for education through his founding of the world-renowned Tuskegee Institute, Washington's Up from Slavery remains one of the most significant and defining works in American literature.

Vividly recounting Washington's life--his childhood as a slave, struggle for education, founding and presidency of the Tuskegee Institute, and meetings with the country's leaders, this book reveals the conviction he held that the black man's salvation lay in education, industriousness and self-reliance.

Originally produced in two volumes, and published here for the first time in one paperback volume, the first part of The Story of the Negro covers Africa and the history of slavery in the United States while the second carries the history from the Civil War to the first part of the twentieth century.

Da den amerikanske borgerkrig sluttede, stod de sorte slaver tilbage som frie mennesker – og langt hen ad vejen uden evnen til at begå sig. De var ufaglærte, kunne hverken læse eller skrive, og var uvidende om selv de mest elementære aspekter af samfundslivet: penge, familieliv og husholdning. Med de to tekster i denne bog får vi på nærmeste hold et indtryk af de udfordringer, de frigivne slaver og deres børn stod overfor. Begge tekster er skrevet af den store sorte leder, pædagogen og samfundsdebattøren Booker T. Washington, der fra sin centrale position midt i de krigshærgede og, senere, racesegregerede sydstater havde frit udsyn til vanskelighederne. Det siger alt om ham, at han skildrer disse år med både varme og humor, forfærdelse og hovedrysten, men også altid med overskud og blikket konsekvent rettet mod de eneste løsninger, han kunne se, virkede: Uddannelse, arbejde og tid til at lade de positive tiltag overvinde og udslette de negative følger af den frihed, der var kommet så brat.Den første af teksterne er et omfattende uddrag af Washingtons selvbiografi ’Ud af slaveriet’, mens den anden er en samling artikler, han udgav under titlen ’De sorte amerikaneres fremtid’. Tilsammen ridser de et billede af hans samtid op, med dens baggrund og mulige fremtid, der med både livlige detaljer og brede strøg i jævne ord beretter, hvordan man løfter en ubærlig byrde og begynder at gå.