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This is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington, the foremost black educator of his times.

An illustrated biography of the former slave who founded the Tuskegee Institute.

Up From Slavery is a powerful, compelling and haunting 7-part documentary series that examines the history of slavery in America, from the arrival of the first African slaves through Nat Turner's Rebellion to the Civil War and beyond. In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded...

A biography of the former slave who founded Tuskegee University and later became the most powerful African American leader at the turn of the century.

Traces the life of the black educator who rose from slavery to found Tuskegee Institute.

"Black education in the South was the great social program of the post-Civil War era. Desperately strapped for operating capital, the first freedmen's schools resorted to a bold fundraising experiment. Student troupes were sent to the North singing Negro spirituals, the sacred songs of slavery, in order to generate goodwill and entice financial support. The Fisk University Jubilee Singers set this strategy in motion in 1871; in the wake of their success,...