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Trade Review"A major event by any standards. At long last friends, critics, and even enemies of Washington can see him only as his papers can reveal him. . . . In the papers we can find confirmations of our various opinions of him, but we can also find surprises in the life and views of a man that too few of his contemporaries really knew and understood."--John Hope Franklin, University of Chicago
"An extraordinary set of papers, not just for Negro history but for the history of the early twentieth century. Washington has an incredibly large correspondence with important scholars, philanthropists, and politicians of his age, and the publication will be an enormous service to scholars."--Kenneth M. Stampp, University of California
"Louis Harlan is an extraordinary able scholar and certainly one of the most perceptive and thoughtful historians working in the field of Negro history. . . . The undertaking is going to be one of the truly distinguished editorial contributions of our generation."--Dewey Grantham, Vanderbilt University
Table of ContentsIntroduction xiii
- The Story of My Life and Work, 1900 1
- Up from Slavery, 1901 211
- A Letter to the Editors of the Southern Workman, September 28, 1895 389
- "Early Life and Struggle for an Education," October 1899 392
- "Christmas Days in Old Virginia," December 1907 394
- An Extract from "The Privilege of Service," December 1907 398
- Extracts from The Story of the Negro, 1909 400
- Extracts from My Larger Education, 1911 418
- Index 459
