Character Building

Character Building

Character Building

Character Building

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Overview

A compilation of more than 30 addresses from Booker T. Washington explaining the importance of personal responsibility, self-reflection and economic independence in the Black community. Character Building is an inspiring series of anecdotes that speak to the issues of his contemporary audience.

Booker T. Washington was a strong supporter of education and entrepreneurship among African Americans. He believed a degree or certification could provide access and elevate one’s social and economic status. In Character Building, he provides his basic tenets of success that are rooted in individual behavior. He encourages productivity and the need for a positive home life. To succeed, each person’s environment must be conducive to their goals.

Washington’s life-long mission was to inspire and uplift the most vulnerable in his community. In Character Building he discusses the many tools that can be used to change a person’s station. It’s an open declaration of the core beliefs that helped shaped his life.

With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Character Building is both modern and readable.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781513271132
Publisher: Mint Editions
Publication date: 01/26/2021
Series: Black Narratives
Pages: 766
Sales rank: 227,348
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) was a prominent figure in the African American community and a champion of higher education. He was born into slavery and obtained freedom shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation. As a child, he worked manual jobs to help support his family, but aspired to receive a formal education. He enrolled in Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute in Virginia and thrived as a student. After graduating, Washington embarked on a career as a lecturer and leader of the Tuskegee Institute. He also worked as a political advisor to presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition xiii

Preface xli

1 Two Sides of Life 1

2 Helping Others 7

3 Some of the Rocks Ahead 13

4 On Influencing by Example 19

5 The Virtue of Simplicity 23

6 Have You Done Your Best? 29

7 Don't Be Discouraged 35

8 On Getting a Home 39

9 Calling Things by Their Right Names 43

10 European Impressions 49

11 The Value of System in Home Life 55

12 What Will Pay 59

13 Education that Educates 65

14 The Importance of Being Reliable 71

15 The Highest Education 77

16 Unimproved Opportunities 83

17 Keeping Your Word 91

18 Some Lessons of the Hour 97

19 The Gospel of Service 103

20 The Negro Conference 109

21 What Is to Be Our Future? 115

22 Some Great Little Things 121

23 To Would-Be Teachers 127

24 The Cultivation of Stable Habits 131

25 What You Ought to Do 135

26 Individual Responsibility 141

27 Getting on in the World 147

28 Each One His Part 151

29 What Would Father and Mother Say? 157

30 Object Lessons 163

31 Substance vs. Shadow 167

32 Character as Shown in Dress 171

33 Sing the Old Songs 175

34 Getting Down to Mother Earth 181

35 A Penny Saved 187

36 Growth 195

37 Last Words 199

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