Publicado por CreateSpace Independent Publishi, 2010
ISBN 10: 1453699090 ISBN 13: 9781453699096
Librería: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010
ISBN 10: 1453699090 ISBN 13: 9781453699096
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. -- This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Publicado por CreateSpace, 2010
ISBN 10: 1453699090 ISBN 13: 9781453699096
Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Brand New. rep una edition. 135 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.