![]() 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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