Story of My Life and Work
Booker T. Washington
(4 Sterne; 1 Bewertungen)
The legacy of Booker T. Washington has inspired leaders for racial equality for over a century. He rose from a slave family to be adviser to presidents. As an educator founded the Tuskegee Institute and championed higher education to those who were denied such based on race. Booker T. Washington gives us this autobiography of his life and work. - Summary by Larry Wilson (10 hr 5 min)
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An important bit of American History
msfry
(4 Sterne)
Booker did a good bit of the heavy lifting trying to get the "colored people" as he called them, to stand on their own two feet after Emancipation. Education, Education, Education was his mantra, and helping his race learn trades and start businesses that were "equal to white men, and excel them", was his goal. Truly a heroic figure in our history, very articulate and a good writer and speaker. His message for how to succeed still rings true. A group project, all readers are intelligible (which is the Librivox criteria). It's great to have these books in audible form.