My Larger Education
Booker T. Washington
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This is a sequel to Washington's first autobiographical book, Up From Slavery, which depicted his early life. He says "This book contains answers to the questions I have frequently been asked as to how I have worked out for myself the educational methods which we are now using at Tuskegee; and, finally, to illustrate, for the benefit of the members of my own race, some of the ways in which a people who are struggling upward may turn disadvantages into opportunities." "The fact that I was born a Negro, and the further fact that I have all my life been engaged in a kind of work that was intended to uplift the masses of my people, has brought me in contact with many exceptional persons, both North and South." Chapter after chapter reveals how he raised money from willing white philanthropists to support Tuskegee Institute, how his travels to study European methods of education influenced him, lessons he learned from fellow negros, and how his patient educational approach differed from what many more radical black activists advocated. (Summary by Michele Fry) (7 hr 21 min)
Chapters
| I. Learning from Men and Things | 26:01 | Read by Michele Fry |
| II. Building a School Around a Problem | 45:14 | Read by William Allan Jones |
| III. Some Exceptional Men, and What I have Learned From Them | 41:57 | Read by Gini Rosario |
| IV. My Experience with Reporters and Newspapers | 29:55 | Read by Kaye Burke |
| V. The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob | 41:40 | Read by Tina Ding |
| VI. A Commencement Oration on Cabbages | 44:57 | Read by William Allan Jones |
| VII. Colonel Roosevelt and What I Have Learned From Him | 25:30 | Read by Tatiana Chichilla |
| VIII. My Educational Campaign Through the South and What They Taught Me | 32:09 | Read by Wayne Cooke |
| IX. What I Have Learned from Black Men | 49:16 | Read by Michele Fry |
| X. Meeting High and Low in Europe | 32:55 | Read by Aaron Weber |
| XI. What I Learned About Education in Denmark | 35:07 | Read by Aaron Weber |
| XII. The Mistakes and the Future of Negro Education | 36:20 | Read by Aaron Weber |