Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 15, 1915) was an African American educator and author. He was born into slavery at the community of Hale's Ford in Franklin County, Virginia. After he and his mother were freed, as a young man he made his way east from West Virginia (where she had obtained work) to obtain schooling at Hampton in eastern Virginia at a school established to train teachers.

Writings

• The Awakening of the Negro, The Atlantic Monthly, 78 (September, 1896).
• The Case of the Negro, The Atlantic Monthly, 84 (November, 1899).
• Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (1901) - ISBN 0451527542
• The Atlanta Compromise (1895)