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...Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) led an extraordinary life. Although he was the son of a slave, he also made truly remarkable contributions to American life in terms of promoting the simple understanding that African Americans, the slaves and children of slaves, could and should be educated and that education was a way for people to lift themselves up and away from the degradation and poverty most of them knew. He also changed the perceptions of many (at least those whose vision was not clouded by racial prejudice) 19th century white and black Americans regarding the potential of Negroes.
Born in 1856 . . .
As a child on a plantation in Virginia during the Civil War, Washington gained firsthand knowledge of what a slaves life and fate was likely to be. In the opening lines of his autobiography, Up from Slavery, (published in 1902) Washington explains that: My life had its...