A young Booker T. Washington, who grew up behind the African Zion Baptist Church in Malden, West Virginia, was just beginning to learn his value and worth as a Black man post-slavery.

Booker T. Washington was one of the most powerful ... 1901 publication of his best-selling autobiography, Up From Slavery. But Washington's philosophy of racial uplift was bitterly opposed ...

The Booker T Washington National Monument preserves the birthplace of one of the most influential American American men of the 19th and 20th centuries. Born into slavery at a plantation in ...

he came upon the autobiography of Booker T. Washington, the conservative dean of American black leaders. It was while reading Up from Slavery, Garvey said, that he developed his vision for the ...