Up from Slavery by Booker T. WashingtonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a complicated book to review. It's partly a memoir and partly an attempt to advertise the Tuskegee school he built and for which he fundraised. There's a line in here where Washington says not to say anything in the North that you wouldn't say in the South. Well, this entire book is things he would say in the South, and its effect is a possibly false positiveness. Nonetheless, Washington was a phenomenal person and his autobiography is well worth reading.
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