The book conveys his practical approach to black self-improvement, an approach that called for cooperation and compromise with white society. In 1901 Washington published his autobiography, Up from Slavery. Building on the school’s success, Washington rose to prominence in the 1890s, winning recognition as the nation’s leading African American spokesperson after the death of Frederick Douglass in 1895. Washington founded and ran the Tuskegee Institute beginning in 1881, a school for African Americans in rural Alabama. An autobiography set in Alabama from the late 1850s to 1900 published in 1901.Ī self-trained African American leader recounts his early slave experience and his faith and beliefs as reflected in the Tuskegee Institute, a vocational school that he established for African Americans.Įvents in History at the Time of the AutobiographyĪ teacher and former slave, Booker T.
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