Booker T. Washington was one of the most powerful African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Born a slave in Hale's Ford, Virginia, the son of a white man who did not acknowledge him ...

“I think there are not many men in our country who have had the privilege of naming themselves in the way that I have,” wrote Booker T. Washington in his illuminating autobiography “Up from Slavery.” ...

he came upon the autobiography of Booker T. Washington, the conservative dean of American black leaders. It was while reading Up from Slavery, Garvey said, that he developed his vision for the ...