![]() ![]() For these readers, Washington’s program of racial uplift was too conciliatory, and his vision of black economic success at the expense of social advancement or political power was too narrow. Others, however, believed that Washington’s rags-to-riches tale, written while he was living in Alabama, failed to hold white racism fully accountable for the condition of blacks in the South. ![]() In the work, Washington-educator, social critic, and founder of Tuskegee Institute-praised the virtues of thrift, patience, and industrial training and drew lavish praise from white reviewers, who hailed it as a classic American success story. Washington’s Up From Slavery (1901) remains one of the most influential and controversial accounts of Black life in the United States. Acclaimed in its day as a landmark autobiography, Booker T. ![]()
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