Thompson of Alabama is going to take some Northern Congressmen down into Alabama to show them the race problem in its home, and give them an insight into Southern conditions.' A article in a Washington, D.C.

It was a time when Washington and Tuskegee were often targeted by a group known as the Lily Whites, which 'opposed black political participation and supported the return of segregation and white supremacy' (Little, Prodigal Republican).Three days before the date of Washington's inscription, The New York Times reported: 'Representative Charles W. Judge Fuller, the recipient of this copy, was in a group of Congressmen and Northern leaders who visited Tuskegee on May 21, the date of Washington's inscription. It was originally published as a serial in the Outlook Magazine… and was ultimately published in more than 12 languages' (Blockson, Commented Bibliography 51). Washington's Up From Slavery is listed among the most widely read autobiographies.

'Counted among the ablest public speakers of his time… he became the most recognized spokesman of his generation. Ten years later, aged 25, he was selected to head Tuskegee Institute… His leadership in education as well as his talents as a public speaker made him the outstanding black man of his time' (Hart, 803). Freed, he taught himself to read from Webster's 'Blue-back spelling book,' adopted his inspirational surname, and walked most of the 500 miles to attend Hampton Institute for vocational training. Washington, 'the son of a black slave and a white man, was born into slavery on a Virginia plantation. Washington, ,' with frontispiece portrait of Washington, a splendid copy. Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition of Washington's landmark autobiography, a distinctive presentation/association copy inscribed by him the same day its recipient and a group of Northern congressman met Washington at Tuskegee, 'To Judge Fuller, with kind wishes of Booker T. Octavo, original gilt-stamped burgundy cloth, top edge gilt. WASHINGTON, MAY 21, 1902': PRESENTATION/ASSOCIATION FIRST EDITION OF UP FROM SLAVERY, 1901, INSCRIBED BY BOOKER T.

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