Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an educator, orator, advisor to multiple Presidents of the United States of America, and author. He was born a slave, and after the American Civil War became (in the words of Wikipedia) "the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite."


 * The Future of the American Negro – 1899
 * Up from Slavery – 1901
 * Character Building – 1902
 * Working with the Hands – 1904
 * Tuskegee & Its People (editor) – 1905
 * Frederick Douglass – 1906 Online
 * The Negro in the South (with W. E. B. Du Bois) – 1907
 * The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe – 1912