Up from SlaveryBy: Booker T. Washington Series: Signature Editions Booker T. Washingtons famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washingtons rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nations most prominent Black educator and first president of Tuskegee University. A tireless advocate for Black economic independence, Washington attempted to balance his public acceptance of segregation with behind the scenes lobbying against voter