My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience

by Booker T. Washington

Book Overview

The primary voice of the African American community from 1890 to 1915, and the author of Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington was an educator and orator as well as a founder of the Alabama school that developed into Tuskegee University. Washington proposed that most African Americans would benefit from a practical trade rather than a liberal arts education -- a position opposed by other black leaders, including W. E. B. Dubois, and the source...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486493180
• ISBN13: 9780486493183
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.1"