`My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.` For half a century from its publication in 1901 Up from Slavery was the best known book written by an African American. The life of ex-slave Booker... Zobraziť viac
He is one of the great voices in African-American history: Booker T. Washington rose from a boyhood in shackles in West Virginia-he was eight when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution freed all slaves in 1865-to the status of national hero... Zobraziť viac
