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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” — Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery
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About Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery is an autobiography by an American educator Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), written in 1901 encompassing his life. The book describes his experience of working as an enslaved person during the Civil War. It also described the obstacles he overcame to obtain an education at the new Hampton Institute. His book especially focuses on his work establishing vocational schools like the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help Black people and other underrepresented communities learn useful marketable skills.
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- 1900