Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 1(English, Hardcover, Washington Booker T)

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Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 1(English, Hardcover, Washington Booker T) is written by Washington Booker T and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252002423 (ISBN 10) and 9780252002427 (ISBN 13).

Here is the first of fifteen volumes in a project C. Vann Woodward called "the single most important research enterprise now under way in the field of American black history." Volume 1 contains Washington's Up from Slavery, one of the most widely read American autobiographies, in addition to The Story of My Life and Work, and six other autobiographical writings. Together, the selections provide readers with a first step toward understanding Washington and his immense impact. These writings reveal the moral values he absorbed from his mid-nineteenth-century experiences and teachers. As importantly, they present him to the world as he wished to be seen: as the black version of the American success hero and an exemplar of the Puritan work ethic that he believed to be the secret of his success. These works, along with so much of Washington's writing, served as a model for many black Americans striving to overcome poverty and prejudice.