It'll have you motivated and getting ready to reach for the stars. Reach out to find your common humanity with other races. Follow your flow by doing that one great thing in your life. How can you not be inspired by a man who was born into slavery, barely knowing his mother because hard labor was so constant, a man who worked in a mine when emancipated, who slept on the streets, and went on to have an honorary doctorate bestowed upon him by Harvard, to have the President of the United States of America come speak to his school? You'll learn about keeping yourself skilled and educated, to be ready when that opportunity presents itself (and it will). I get easily discouraged, so it was with a mixture of shame and outright inspiration that I listened to "Up from Slavery". This is the true-life story of a man of real courage and dedication.īooker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915), founder of Tuskegee Institute, was a leading educator, author, and statesman who rose from slavery to become internationally famous.
Employing a didactic tone, Washington deftly sets forth his belief that the Black man’s salvation lies in education, industriousness, and self-reliance. He gives an account of his travels, speeches, and meetings with various leaders, including Theodore Roosevelt in the White House. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his years as founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which was devoted to helping minorities learn useful, marketable skills. For the 50 years that followed its publication in 1901, Up from Slavery was the most widely known book written by an African American.
Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the "do-it-yourself" idea.
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