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Author
Language
English
Description
Describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up 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 Institute, 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, as a race, up by the bootstraps....
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language
English
Description
A biographical portrait of Booker T. Washington, an African American leader who helped found the Tuskegee Normal School for Teachers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Language
English
Description
Briefly explores the life of African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington and his work with the Tuskegee Institute. Includes a timeline and glossary.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Booker T. Washington has been described as the most famous and influential black man in the United States between 1895 and 1915. Born into slavery, his childhood was marked by poverty and hard labor. This compelling volume traces Washington's life from those early years, through his determined struggle to achieve an education, to his rise as an influential black leader and his sometimes-controversial ideas about how blacks should work to achieve...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and times of the educational leader and founder of the Tuskegee Institute, who became a leading spokesman for the African American community.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the 1901 White House dinner shared by former slave Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt, documenting the ensuing scandal and the ways in which the event reflected post-Civil War politics and race relations.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
[Library ed.].
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Booker T. Washington, a slave freed after the Civil War who became a leading educator of African Americans and whose Tuskegee Institute taught farming, carpentry, sewing, and other skills.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xi, 218 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses the friendship between Booker T. Wahington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and how, through their friendship, they were able to build five thousand schools for African Americans in the Southern states.