Booker T. Washington (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Recognized during the early years of the twentieth century as the principal, though controversial, spokesman for African Americans, Booker Taliaferro Washington also won fame for his well-known rags to riches autobiography, Up from Slavery. He was born a slave of a white father and a black mother on a Virginia plantation, and the Civil War occurred early in his life. At age nine, moving with his mother and stepfather to West Virginia, where his stepfather went to work in the salt mines, Washington developed a hunger for education. Mrs. Lewis Ruffner, the wife of the mine’s...
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