Booker Washington

Booker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most…

Booker T. Washington used his own life and experience as a former slave to write The Story of the Negro. Equal parts sociology, history, cultural…

In the summer of 1899, Booker T. Washington visited Europe to rest from his demanding schedule. Yet everywhere he turned, he encountered French and American…