![]() ![]() Washington explained that the integration of practical subjects is partly designed to reassure the white community as to the usefulness of educating black people. Deals partly with the establishment of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. His educational philosophy stresses combining academic subjects with learning a trade (something which is reminiscent of the educational theories of John Ruskin). Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907 - African Americans - 330 pages. ![]() He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feeling of dignity to students. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and Native Americans. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schools-most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama-to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. ![]() Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. ![]()
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