Booker T. Washington · 1901
17 chapters · 73,247 words
I: A Slave Among Slaves
II: Boyhood Days
III: The Struggle for an Education
IV: Helping Others
V: The Reconstruction Period
VI: Black Race and Red Race
VII: Early Days at Tuskegee
VIII: Teaching School in a Stable and a Henhouse
IX: Anxious Days and Sleepless Nights
X: A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw
XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie on Them
XII: Raising Money
XIII: Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech
XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
XV: The Secret of Success in Public Speaking
XVI: Europe
XVII: Last Words