The Story of My Life and Work
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About This Book
Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was an African American political leader, educator and author. He was one of the dominant figures in African American history in the United States from 1890 to 1915. Born into slavery in Franklin County, Virginia, at the age of 9, he was freed and moved with his family to West Virginia, where he learned to read and write while working in manual labor jobs. He later trained as a teacher, and in 1881 was named the first leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He was granted an honorary Masters of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1896 and an hon...
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- THE STORY OF MY LIFE AND WORK
- INTRODUCTION.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- CHAPTER I. BIRTH AND EARLY CHILDHOOD.
- CHAPTER II. BOYHOOD IN WEST VIRGINIA.
- CHAPTER III. LIFE AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE.
- CHAPTER IV. HOW THE FIRST SIX YEARS AFTER GRADUATION FROM HAMPTON WERE SPENT.
- CHAPTER V. THE BEGINNING OF THE WORK AT TUSKEGEE.
- CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST YEAR AT TUSKEGEE.
- CHAPTER VII. THE STRUGGLES AND SUCCESS OF THE WORKERS AT TUSKEGEE FROM 1882 TO 1884.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE HISTORY OF TUSKEGEE FROM 1884 TO 1894.
- CHAPTER IX. INVITED TO DELIVER A LECTURE AT FISK UNIVERSITY.
- CHAPTER X. THE SPEECH AT THE OPENING OF THE COTTON STATES’ EXPOSITION, AND INCIDENTS CONNECTED THEREWITH.
- CHAPTER XI. AN APPEAL FOR JUSTICE.
- CHAPTER XII. HONORED BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
- CHAPTER XIII. URGED FOR A CABINET POSITION.
- CHAPTER XIV. THE SHAW MONUMENT SPEECH, THE VISIT OF SECRETARY JAMES WILSON, AND THE LETTER TO THE LOUISIANA CONVENTION.
- CHAPTER XV. CUBAN EDUCATION AND THE CHICAGO PEACE JUBILEE ADDRESS.
- CHAPTER XVI. THE VISIT OF PRESIDENT WM. McKINLEY TO TUSKEGEE.
- CHAPTER XVII. THE TUSKEGEE NEGRO CONFERENCE.
- CHAPTER XVIII. A VACATION IN EUROPE.
- CHAPTER XIX. THE WEST VIRGINIA AND OTHER RECEPTIONS AFTER EUROPEAN TRIP.
- CHAPTER XX. THE MOVEMENT FOR A PERMANENT ENDOWMENT
- CHAPTER XXI. A DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK OF THE TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE.
- CHAPTER XXII. LOOKING BACKWARD.
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