Have Fun With History: Booker T. Washington

The strategies civil rights activists Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois proposed for blacks to achieve racial progress is the focus of an activity in which class groups identify the strategies as well as the benefits and drawbacks...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson plan allows students to read a speech of Booker T. Washington's and a...

A very detailed version of Booker T. Washington's life as a slave and as an educator. This autobiography is the outgrowth of a series of articles he had published in the Outlook magazine. The simple story of an extraordinary man.

Read the complete text from the book "Up from Slavery: An Autobiography", by Booker T. Washington, in which he explores his journey from slave to educator. Includes illustrations, biographical facts, and links to further information on...

Historical information on Booker T. Washington, the foremost black educator of the late 19th and 20th centuries. This site offers an overview of his greatest accomplishments, including links to his autobiography and other writings. This...

This is an online study guide for the novel Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

This biography of Booker T. Washington includes some details of his early life and education, plus the more outspokenly anti-racist views of his later life. Click to related pages on the Booker T. Washington National Monument and notes...

Slave, educator, orator, philosopher. Booker T. Washington is the subject of a mini-biography that provides an overview of the life and achievements of this remarkable man.

The holiday season is upon us and Have Fun With History gives you the opportunity to go back and view some ghosts of Christmas Past in this collection of videos and a game.

Have fun with history videos from the past which explored technologies and innovations of the future that is now, some relevant and others not, teaches students about the dreams of the past.