Booker T Washington

For the fifty years that followed its original publication in 1901, Up From Slavery was the most widely known book written by an African American. The life of Booker T. Washington was the embodiment of the American self-made man, and his autobiography gave voice for the first time to a vast group that had to pull itself up from nothing. The well-documented ordeals and observations of this humble and plainspoken schoolmaster reveal traces of...

"Uncle Tom or New Negro? does much more than provide yet another critical edition of Washington's memoir. Instead, Rebecca Carroll has interviewed an outstanding array of African American luminaries."-- Provided by publisher.