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Booker T. Washington was an African American leader of the late 19th and early 20th century. He is the founder of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. He was for in the late 1850s, in Virginia and became a teacher when he grew up. He was focused and started a university for African American in agricultural pursuits so he would teach then. He was determined to help each African American. Booker lived with his mother during the Civil War and they both lived in a plantation, Booker’s mother, Jane, was a cook for a plantation owner James Burroughs. Booker was put on a job at a very early age, he went to work and carried 100 pounds of grains and was beaten when slacking at his job. Booker first started studying at a school near the plantation, he first saw the children sitting at a desk and reading books. He wanted to be there so badly but he was a slave and it was illegal to teach slaves how to read and write.

"Booker Taliaferro Washington." Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2014. Web. 29 Nov. 2014.

These books themes are the value of education, dignity of work, slavery, relationships between the two races, and the success. This book is about Booker T. Washington establishing a university where he can teach other African Americans how to read and write.

Clapsaddle, Diane. "TheBestNotes on Up From Slavery". TheBestNotes.com. 30 November 2014. 15 May 2008 

The conflict of this book is that Booker faces the white Americans and announces, “he is wildly congratulated for making the Negro’s position and advancement in America better known to the white race.” Booker T. Washington is the protagonist because he spends his whole life helping the Negros out of slavery and he ends up founding the Tuskegee Institute. The antagonist are the white people who are against Bookers opinion and the people who his knows help and support him throughout these obstacles.

“Booker believed that there was optimism for his race in America, and he predicted that the day would come when the races mixed freely

and cooperatively.” He had also said that he wanted all African American men to be treated equally as the whites.

Clapsaddle, Diane. "TheBestNotes on Up From Slavery". TheBestNotes.com. 30 November 2014. 15 May 2008

This book war written in 1901 and it is autobiography of Booker T. Washington’s successful life and dealing with the conflicts he had to face throughout this journey. Booker was on a mission to helping black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. Throughout the way Booker does get help from his two teachers who teach him and his wife who supports his opinion.

Washington, Booker T.. Up From Slavery. Lit2Go Edition. 1901. Web. <http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/92/up-from-slavery/>. November 30, 2014.

Booker T. Washington was a national leader for the betterment of African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South. He advocated for economic and industrial improvement of Blacks while accommodating Whites on voting rights and social equality.

At the end of the book, Washington describes his career as a public speaker and civil rights activist. Washington includes the address he gave at the Atlanta Cotton States.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and Nellie McKay, eds., The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, New York: Norton, 1997.

Booker was born as a slave and ended with being a renowned educator. He wrote this book with an optimistic tone and he was sure that the African Americans would succeed through self-improvement and hard work. Some white people just might see them as slaves but others see the work as a justification for black pride. Although Bookers didn’t know much about his dad, it never stopped him from reaching his goals because he had many other people who helped and taught him along the way. Washington moved to many places in the South duringthe civil war. The blacks when through a lack of refinement in living, a poor diet, bad clothing, and ignorance were the slave’s lot.

Society and Self, Critical Representations in LiteratureEd. David Peck. eNotes.com, Inc. 1997 eNotes.com 30 Nov, 2014 

There were a rare amount of African American teacher but any who could read and write would become a teacher. When Booker first went to apply for a school, he used his ‘Washington’ name so that he could have two names like the white students. His passion for studying was so strong, that nothing could stop him from becoming a teacher. He travelled over eighty miles on foot and worked on a shipping dock just to earn enough to buy breakfast and pay his way to Hampton, five hundred miles from home.

Critical Survey of Literature for Students Ed. Laurence W. Mazzeno. eNotes.com, Inc. 2010 eNotes.com 30 Nov, 2014