Lives & Memoirs
Story of My Life and Work
Booker T. Washington
2026
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Booker T. Washington recounts his journey from slavery to national leadership and his lifelong labor to educate and uplift Black Americans through Tuskegee. Practical and hopeful, he describes the building of a school and a movement. An inspiring firsthand record for readers of American education and the post-emancipation South.
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33 chapters
- 1Introduction5m
- 2Birth and Early Childhood12m
- 3Boyhood in West Virginia16m
- 4Life at Hampton Institute12m
- 5How the First Six Years after Graduation from Hampton Were Spent14m
- 6The Beginning of the Work at Tuskegee8m
- 7The First Year at Tuskegee10m
- 8The Struggles and Success of Workers at Tuskegee 1882 - 1884 Part I16m
- 9The Struggles and Success of Workers at Tuskegee 1882 - 1884 Part II16m
- 10The History of Tuskegee from 1884 - 1894 - Part I21m
- 11The History of Tuskegee from 1884 - 1894 - Part II22m
- 12Invited to Deliver Lecture at Fisk University17m
- 13The Speech at the Opening of the Cotton States' Exposition Part I17m
- 14The Speech at the Opening of the Cotton States' Exposition Part II17m
- 15The Speech at the Opening of the Cotton States' Exposition Part III21m
- 16An Appeal for Justice25m
- 17Honored by Harvard University26m
- 18Urged for a Cabinet Position13m
- 19The Shaw Monument Speech, the Visit of Secretary James Wilson, and the Letter to the Louisiana Convention Part I20m
- 20The Shaw Monument Speech, the Visit of Secretary James Wilson, and the Letter to the Louisiana Convention Part II16m
- 21Cuban Education and the Chicago Peace Jubilee Address27m
- 22The Visit of President William McKinley to Tuskegee26m
- 23The Tuskegee Negro Conference25m
- 24A Vacation in Europe Part I16m
- 25A Vacation in Europe Part II19m
- 26The West Virginia and Other Receptions after European Trip28m
- 27National Negro Business League Part I23m
- 28National Negro Business League Part II25m
- 29The Movement for a Permanent Endowment24m
- 30A Descripton of the Work of the Tuskegee Institute Part I15m
- 31A Descripton of the Work of the Tuskegee Institute Part II16m
- 32Looking Backward Part I18m
- 33Looking Backward Part II20m
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