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Booker T. Washington. The Story of My Life and Work
The Story of My Life and Work
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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. BIRTH AND EARLY CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER II. BOYHOOD IN WEST VIRGINIA
CHAPTER III. LIFE AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE
CHAPTER IV. HOW THE FIRST SIX YEARS AFTER GRADUATION FROM HAMPTON WERE SPENT
CHAPTER V. THE BEGINNING OF THE WORK AT TUSKEGEE
CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST YEAR AT TUSKEGEE
CHAPTER VII. THE STRUGGLES AND SUCCESS OF THE WORKERS AT TUSKEGEE FROM 1882 TO 1884
CHAPTER VIII. THE HISTORY OF TUSKEGEE FROM 1884 TO 1894
CHAPTER IX. INVITED TO DELIVER A LECTURE AT FISK UNIVERSITY
CHAPTER X. THE SPEECH AT THE OPENING OF THE COTTON STATES’ EXPOSITION, AND INCIDENTS CONNECTED THEREWITH
CHAPTER XI. AN APPEAL FOR JUSTICE
CHAPTER XII. HONORED BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CHAPTER XIII. URGED FOR A CABINET POSITION
CHAPTER XIV. THE SHAW MONUMENT SPEECH, THE VISIT OF SECRETARY JAMES WILSON, AND THE LETTER TO THE LOUISIANA CONVENTION
CHAPTER XV. CUBAN EDUCATION AND THE CHICAGO PEACE JUBILEE ADDRESS
CHAPTER XVI. THE VISIT OF PRESIDENT WM. McKINLEY TO TUSKEGEE
CHAPTER XVII. THE TUSKEGEE NEGRO CONFERENCE
CHAPTER XVIII. A VACATION IN EUROPE
CHAPTER XIX. THE WEST VIRGINIA AND OTHER RECEPTIONS AFTER EUROPEAN TRIP
CHAPTER XX. THE MOVEMENT FOR A PERMANENT ENDOWMENT
CHAPTER XXI. A DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK OF THE TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE
CHAPTER XXII. LOOKING BACKWARD
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Booker T. Washington
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After my mother and brother John had secured me a few extra garments, with what I could provide for myself, I started for Hampton about the first of October, 1872. How long I was on this journey I have at this time no very definite idea. Part of the way I went by railroad and part in a stage and part on foot. I remember that, when I got as far as Richmond, Virginia, I was completely out of money and knew not a single person in the city. Besides, I had never been in a city before. I think it was about nine o’clock at night that I reached Richmond. I was hungry, tired and dirty, and had no where to go. I wandered about the streets until about midnight, when I felt completely exhausted.
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