Research Catalog

Title

From slave to college president : being the life story of Booker T. Washington / by G. Holden Pike ; with frontispiece portrait.

Author

Pike, G. Holden (Godfrey Holden), 1836-1910

Publication

London : T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, 1902.

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Details

Additional Authors

• T. Fisher Unwin (Firm), publisher.
• Colston & Coy, printer.

Description

vii, [1], 111, [1] pages : portrait; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
• African Americans > Biography
• African Americans > Education
• African American educators > Biography
• Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 > Portraits
• Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

Note

• With a half-title; publisher's advertisement on verso of half-title page.
• "Edinburgh, Colston and Coy, printers."--page [1] at end.

Reproduction (note)

• Photocopy.

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. Wanted: a man ; The man found -- ch. 2. The era of freedom ; Realising that knowledge is power -- ch. 3. Off to Hampton ; Was he a likely candidate? -- ch. 4. General Armstrong ; His predecessors and collaborators ; Pioneers of the new era -- ch. 5. Ups and downs ; Progress as a student ; Beginning to teach -- ch. 6. American Indians ; Work at Hampton -- ch. 7. The beginning of a life work -- ch. 8. Some actual results ; Possible developments -- ch. 9. Continued progress ; Popularity as a speaker -- ch. 10. Visit to Europe ; Return to Tuskegee.

Call Number

Sc B-Washington, B. (Pike, G. From slave to college president)

OCLC

• 15144706
• NYPGR15144706-B

Author

Pike, G. Holden (Godfrey Holden), 1836-1910, author.

Title

From slave to college president : being the life story of Booker T. Washington / by G. Holden Pike ; with frontispiece portrait.

Publisher

London : T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, 1902.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Reproduction

Copy in Sc B-Washington, B. (copy 1) Photocopy. Emerson, N.J. : Ocker & Trapp, Inc. for The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2005. Preservation photocopy.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare B-Washington, B. (copy 2) (accession no. B526714) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local Note

Schomburg Center's researchers restricted to the digital format copy or the Preservation photocopy in the the JBH General Research & Reference Division.

Connect to:

Full text available via HathiTrust (University of California copy)

Added Author

T. Fisher Unwin (Firm), publisher.

Colston & Coy, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc B-Washington, B. (Pike, G. From slave to college president)

Sc Rare B-Washington, B. (Pike, G. From slave to college president) -- (Lapidus Cage)