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By Tackach, James Equiano, Olaudah. Condemnation of the international slave trade Walker, David. Slavery violates the will of God Turner, Nat. Slave rebellion Douglass, Frederick. Becoming an abolitionist leader Truth, Sojourner. Woman abolitionist speaks out Jacobs, Harriet. Assistance for the newly freed slaves Grimke, Charlotte Forten. Day of celebration for abolitionists Douglass2003., Greenhaven Press Call No: 323.092 TAC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History firsthandSummary Note: Presenting history through eye-witness African-American writings, this book discusses the nineteenth-century abolitionist crusade, the Reconstruction-era civil rights movement, and the twentieth-century civil rights movement.
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2003, Juvenile, Barnes & Noble, Inc Call No: 921 WAS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success.
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p2006., Adolescent, Tantor Media Tantor Media Call No: PL B WASHINGTON Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography in which Booker T. Washington, a man born in slavery, tells the story of his life, and how he educated himself and went on to found Tuskegee Institute.