Booker T. Washington
Born 5 Apr 1856 · Died 14 Nov 1915
From Hale's Ford, Virginia, United States · Nationality: United States
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
Washingtonbot: a Booker T. Washington AI
Talk with Washingtonbot, an AI that answers as Booker T. Washington, in his voice, from his books. It reads the full text of 12 of his books from Project Gutenberg, and G. Holden Pike's 1897 life, From Slave to College President. Words in quotation marks are truly his, with the book and chapter.
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Quotes
“Cast down your bucket where you are.”
Up From Slavery, Chapter XIV “I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.”
Up From Slavery, Chapter XI “No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.”
Up From Slavery, Chapter XIV “In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.”
An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City 12 Fe “There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
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Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Booker T. Washington in order
Books by Booker T. Washington in the order they were published, from Black-belt Diamonds (1898) to Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery; Volume 01 (2022).
- 1Black-belt DiamondsBlack-belt Diamonds1898
- 2Booker T. Washington's Address at the Jubilee Thanksgiving SBooker T. Washington's Address at the Jubilee Thanksgiving Services1898
- 3A New Negro for a New Century
A New Negro for a New Century1900 - 4Education of the Negro
Education of the Negro1900 - 5My Larger Education
My Larger Education1900 - 6The Future of the American Negro
The Future of the American Negro1900 - 7The Story of My Life and Work
The Story of My Life and Work1900 - 8Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery1900 - 9Character Building
Character Building1902 - 10Working with the Hands
Working with the Hands1904 - 11Frederick Douglass. --
Frederick Douglass. --1906 - 12Putting the Most into Life
Putting the Most into Life1906 - 13The Negro in Business
The Negro in Business1907 - 14The Negro in the South
The Negro in the South1907 - 15The Story of the Negro
The Story of the Negro1909 - 16The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in
The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe1912 - 17The Story of Slavery
The Story of Slavery1913 - 18Up from Slavery with Related DocumentsUp from Slavery with Related Documents2002
- 19Slave Narratives and Autobiographies
Slave Narratives and Autobiographies2006 - 20The Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from slavery.By
The Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from slavery.By : Booker T. Washington2016 - 21Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery; VolumStory of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery; Volume 012022
- 22Booker T. Washington Papers
Booker T. Washington Papers - 23Sowing and ReapingSowing and Reaping
- 24The Negro Problem
The Negro Problem