Booker T Washington

Biographic Data

ID1646511
NAMEBooker T Washington
GIVEN NAMESBooker T
FAMILY NAMEWashington
SIGNATUREWASHINGTON B T
AFFILIATIONSTuskegee University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1909
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX2

  • Up from Slavery

    Open AccessBooker T WashingtonBOOKUp from Slavery2014

    Born into slavery on a Virginia plantation, Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) educated himself tirelessly in the years after the American Civil War. In 1881, he was appointed head of the Tuskegee Institute, a teacher-training college for African Americans. As a writer, orator and fundraiser, he became one of the leading figures of the black community. Washington argued that the best way of bettering the social position of African Americans was thr…

  • The Atlanta Exposition Address

    Booker T Washington, William L AndrewsCHAPTERUp from Slavery2009

    The Atlanta Exposition, at which I had been asked to make an address as a representative of the Negro race, as stated in the last chapter, was opened with a short address from Governor Bullock. After other interesting exercises, including an invocation from Bishop...

  • Up from slavery

    Booker T Washington, William L AndrewsBOOKUp from Slavery2008

    One of the best-known books for half a century written by an African American, this autobiography "gave prominence for the first time to the voice of a group which had to pulliitself up from extreme adversity."--Cover.

  • The Story of the Negro

    Booker T WashingtonBOOKStory of the Negro2005

    Originally produced in two volumes, and published here for the first time in one paperback volume, the first part of The Story of the Negro covers Africa and the history of slavery in the United States while the second carries the history from the Civil War to the first part of the twentieth century

  • Shadow and Light

    Willard B Gatewood, Mifflin Wistar Gibbs et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review1997

  • Three Negro Classics

    Booker T Washington, William E B Dubois et al.ARTICLEThe Family Coordinator1970

    UP FROM SLAVERY The autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for his education, would go on to struggle for the dignity of all his people in a hostile and alien society. THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK W.E.B. DuBois's classic is a major sociological document and one of…

  • The Negro Problem

    Booker T WashingtonBOOKNegro Problem1969

  • The Story of the Negro. The Rise of the Race from Slavery

    Everett V Stonequist, Booker T WashingtonARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1941Cited by: 7

    VOLUME I PART I. THE NEGRO IN AFRICA Chapter 1. First Notions of Africa Chapter 2. The American Negro and the Native African Chapter 3. The African at Home Chapter 4. The West Coast Background of the American Negro PART II. THE NEGRO AS A SLAVE Chapter 5. The First and Last Slave Ship Chapter 6. The First Slaves Chapter 7. The Indian and the Negro Chapter 8. The Negro's Life in Slavery Chapter 9. Slave Insurrections and the Negro Peril Chapter 10…

  • Industrial Education and the Public Schools

    Open AccessBooker T WashingtonARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1913Cited by: 1

  • The Rural Negro Community

    Open AccessBooker T WashingtonARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1912Cited by: 3

  • The Negro in the New World

    Booker T WashingtonARTICLEAfrican Affairs1911

    Journal Article THE NEGRO IN THE NEW WORLD Get access BOOKER T. WASHINGTON BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Tuskegee InstituteAlabama, U.S.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume X, Issue XXXVIII, January 1911, Pages 173–178, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a101832 Published: 01 January 1911

  • The Negro's Part in Southern Development

    Open AccessBooker T WashingtonARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1910Cited by: 1

    When the first census was taken in 1790, there were 1,903,332 persons living in the southern states, of which 677,275, or 35.6 per cent, were colored.In i85o, the population in the seven south- ern states included in the original census had grown to 5,85 i,2ol, of which the colored portion numbered 2,o34,or 5, or 34.8 per cent.In other words, the ratio of the color,ed population in these states was still very nearly the same in 1850 that it had b…

  • Relation of Industrial Education To National Progress

    Open AccessBooker T WashingtonARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1909

    When the history of industrial education in this country comes to be written it will be found that, directly and indirectly, the Negro has had an important part, not only in defining its aims and shaping its methods, but in advertising its importance.to the world.The first industrial school of any importance in the United States was Hampton Institute, a school founded for Negroes, at Hampton, Va.At the time this school was established, in 1868, t…