| The Works of Booker T. Washington: Up From Slavery: An Autobiography & My Larger Education Contributor(s): Mitchell, J. (Author), Washington, Booker T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1482345099 ISBN-13: 9781482345094 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - History | African American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6" W x 9" (0.88 lbs) 298 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: IT HAS been my fortune to be associated all my life with a problem -- a hard, perplexing, but important problem. There was a time when I looked upon this fact as a great misfortune. It seemed to me a great hardship that I was born poor, and it seemed an even greater hardship that I should have been born a Negro. I did not like to admit, even to myself, that I felt this way about the matter, because it seemed to me an indication of weakness and cowardice for any man to complain about the condition he was born to. Later I came to the conclusion that it was not only weak and cowardly, but that it was a mistake to think of the matter in the way in which I had done. I came to see that, along with his disadvantages, the Negro in America had some advantages, and I made up my mind that opportunities that had been denied him from without could be more than made up by greater concentration and power within. |