Booker T. Washington - Up From Slavery | Read by Ossie Davis (1976)

[@dakelei]

I'm a 60 year-old white American guy living in China teaching English. I don't even remember how I got to this page. However, when I saw this I felt like I simply had to listen to it. I was a history teacher in the USA and every year taught a little about Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee yet never read this book. I regret that now. What an inspirational story.

[@ask4theupgrade359]

Chris Davies - How can I be an almost 60 year-old NYC American guy living in China teaching English? Sounds like an amazing opportunity.

[@dakelei]

@@ask4theupgrade359 It's tough now, for a number of reasons, but if you have a degree in anything from an American university you could do it.

[@ask4theupgrade359]

Chris Davies - Thank you. I am American born with a degree from an American university. Maybe I can visit China, once the pandemic is further under control.

[@WalterArnold-kh8ou]

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[@jenkemjones68]

I first learned about Booker T Washington in 7th grade American history class in Tennessee where I grew up.When Gen. Armstrong made him principal of an all black school they had only 100 acre to begin with.This man turned it into 2,000 acre with assistance from his student by making and selling bricks.They also sold livestock all on their own to fund the school.Washington is an underrated icon in the history of building America.More should be taught about this incredible man and his accomplishments.

[@marybass5412]

When I was growing up in Mississippi, I am now 61, my Mama and Daddy always told us about Booker T. Washington. UP FROM SLAVERY was required reading in my house. My MAMA made us READ all the TIME and we WERE constantly taught about GREAT BLACK ANCESTORS…..❤️

[@FxnkyFresko]

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[@SavingOurRepublic]

Booker T. Washington was a great man

[@johnfofana9979]

​@Marjorie Noack errerrr😊r😊😊r5eertrr7😊è😊😊😊😊😊

[@Obladgolated]

How fine a man to learn about. A giant.

[@jenkemjones68]

Leaned about Booker T Washington in a mostly white school in 1982 7th grade.I grew up in Harrison TN next to Booker T Washington State Park.Each year they held a commemorative speech about the man.Loved learning about him.Great man!

[@dman7619]

The late great Ossie Davis's reading is fantastic. His voice is clear. The tone beautiful. RIP

[@nomenonsnane9569]

HE iS RESTING IN POWER

[@sadiestills6030]

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[@guleiro]

One of my favourite actors ❤

[@stellabrown909]

Beautiful voice….very believable

[@stevenbrathwaite9932]

My son and I have been listening to this on his way too and from daycare. It's never too early!

[@geoffreysparks7284]

Steven Brathwaite Early is the ONLY way. Salute

[@henrysedillo5834]

100-KING

[@laritagaskins394]

That is excellent!!!

[@derekgordon6905]

Brilliant. Respect goes out to you.

[@brignjesus]

Amen!!

[@kme321]

They don't teach you about Booker T. Washington in public schools anymore, for anyone who forgot about his history I recommend this audio book to refresh your memory. This story is an example of what a man can do when society doubts your success. Reelback, you are truly genuine and seem to care about the importance of black history, so for that I have subscribed to you. You're a real one

[@JohnGalt916]

They dont teach a lot anymore. I found out they dont even have home economics, so im not shocked to find out they dont teach basic history.

[@janiceharley9051]

I have enjoyed immensely your movies thank you Janice Harley

[@mariefindley6768]

Okay @@JohnGalt916 i5

[@shantelafia4462]

Anymore? Teaching of prominent Black figures ended when integration began.

[@veronicahaney6005]

@@JohnGalt916 Thats why you have kids in universities who don't know to wash their dishes after they cook.

[@alvinfrazier4152]

I have renewed my motivation in business after listening to this audio book. Thank you Mr. Booker T. Washington! You were one of the greatest black educators in our short history of freedom in the USA.

[@mznaeture]

Required reading at Tuskegee University freshman orientation 👍🏾 much love to Booker T for lifting the veil for so many 💯

[@True-Alpha-king]

So how are you?

[@parikshitzodge]

Ma'am I am from Indian read full book about Dr Washington and proj Jorge Carver...they have did great sacrifices to lift you up never forget them

[@lmiddleton726]

Plus so many more that they don’t educate us about.

[@chuckkady7282]

This all happened in my lifetime::: A TALE OF TWO AMERICAS by James D. Veltmeyer, MD Are we heading toward two Americas? Are we now engaged in a cold civil war? Are we on the cusp of national disintegration and separation? These trenchant questions would have elicited simple responses and quizzical stares in the 1940s and 1950s when, it might be argued, America was at the zenith of power, prestige, and national unity. Most Americans asked that question during the Eisenhower era would not have even understood what the query meant. We were a different country then and a far different country now. Just think back to that period in American history. We had just vanquished Nazism, fascism, and imperial Japan in the bloodiest war of all time. We alone held all the cards. We alone were the world’s superpower. No nation or bloc of nations could challenge our wealth, productivity, or military prowess. Europe was in ruins. Japan had been atom-bombed into submission. China was in civil war and while Stalin was advancing into Eastern Europe, the Russians had just lost forty million people in the war and the rest of its population was locked in a totalitarian dungeon. America in the 1950s was overwhelmingly white and Christian. Its immigrant populations of Irish, Italians, and Poles had successfully assimilated into the American culture. We spoke the same language, honored the same heroes of Valley Forge, Gettysburg, and Normandy, celebrated the same holidays, and, by and large, worshipped the same God. Families were intact, pre-marital sex was frowned up, divorce was uncommon, and drug abuse was rare. Prayer was permitted in the public schools and graduation ceremonies that did not invoke the Almighty would have been unthinkable. Abortion was illegal almost everywhere. And, even if it had not been illegal, it would have been considered hugely immoral. Hollywood’s movies were clean and uplifting. Censors were not needed for “I Love Lucy” and “Father Knows Best.” Children obeyed their parents. And their parents obeyed God. Was everything perfect? Of course not. No human society is perfect. Yes, we had problems, the most glaring being segregation and civil rights. Yet, even in the midst of Jim Crow, African-Americans enjoyed a prosperity unparalleled in human history. Black families stayed together. Out-of-wedlock births were a fraction of today’s number. And, even in the South at the height of segregation, black and white children played on the same playgrounds and their mothers and fathers worked side-by-side However, something happened in the decade of the 1960s. It was determined by a handful of elites in government, academia, and the media that the America of Dwight David Eisenhower was bad, boring, or worse. Suddenly, we were told “God Is Dead” and that man is the alpha and omega of all things. That led to an insurrection against all authority throughout all sectors of American society. It was now OK for students to burn American flags and draft cards, to occupy college campuses and spew forth profanity in the name of “Free Speech.” African-Americans were told it was all right to loot, pillage and burn down cities. The Warren Court chimed in, creating new Constitutional “rights” out of thin air, letting the malcontents and America-haters believe that everything they were doing was just fine, a praiseworthy example of “dissent.” Those who believed in the traditional America of the 1940s and 1950s didn’t fight back. They were what President Nixon called the “Silent Majority.” Convinced by the elites that “intolerance” was the worst of all malignancies, they failed to stand up to those tearing America down. Yes, they cast votes for Republican Presidents but those Presidents themselves lacked the will to resist the barbarians at the gate. They let the Left set the agenda, allowed the Left to demonize anyone who aligned with traditional values, and offered little but token resistance to the onslaught. Fifty years later, the results are predictable. The fissures have widened and the divisions in American society have only become deeper and more permanent. Facing little opposition from the standard-bearers of American truth, the left-wing mob become empowered and emboldened. Constantly moving the goal posts, they demanded more and more concessions from us. Abortion in the “hard cases” now became a right to third-trimester abortions, even to the moment of birth. Tolerance for non-believers meant tearing down creches, menorahs, or monuments of the Ten Commandments, forbidding Christmas carols and abolishing Christmas and Easter in favor of “Winter” and “Spring” holidays. A less judgmental attitude on sex now meant homosexual marriage and transgender “rights” to bathrooms and sports teams. Even pedophilia is okay in the view of some of their enlightened “academics.” “Equal rights” which promised to judge individuals on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin was turned upside- down as “identity” politics took over, pigeonholing each of us into arbitrary racial, ethnic, and gender cubicles which would define what we had to think and believe. A holiday for Martin Luther King now meant subsuming Washington and Lincoln to something vaguely called “President’s Day” and tearing down historical monuments to any American hero who happened to be white, male, and Christian from Christopher Columbus to Robert E. Lee. It has now come full circle. The Left has never been more brazen nor has it been more bizarre. The leading Democrat candidate for President has staffers who want to put conservatives in “re-education camps” and execute landowners. Another candidate vows to give a 9-year old so- called “transgender” child first pick for U.S. Secretary of Education. All Democrat candidates agree on free health care for illegal immigrants and most want to abolish the U.S. border outright. They endorse outright lawlessness as they embrace sanctuary cities and turn a blind eye to vagrants and drug addicts taking over the streets of our major cities. Can you now see why some argue that liberalism is actually a form of mental illness? Does any of this make any sense at all? We are indeed living in two Americas. One is what Hillary called the America of “deplorables”: the smelly Walmart shoppers who cling to their God, their Bibles and their guns. The other America is the America of the rage-filled, hate-filled coastal elites, from New York and Washington, D.C. to Hollyweird and Silicon Valley. They are contemptuous of everything we believe and everything we cherish. They are cultural nihilists who wish to raze to the ground the America we know and build their new godless socialist utopia upon its ashes. They are the children and grandchildren of the 1960s troublemakers. They hate the America of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison. They hate you. For fifty years, they have been getting almost everything they wanted and they have totally transformed America in the process. They succeeded because a series of feckless leaders failed to take them on. Until now. This election will determine which America wins. The stakes could not be higher. In President Donald Trump, the Left has finally met its match. We pray to God he prevails again this November. Dr. James Veltmeyer is a prominent La Jolla physician voted “Top Doctor” in San Diego County in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019. Dr. Veltmeyer can be reached at [e-mail]

[@erinmette307]

They should teach this in late elementary school or junior high school people need to learn how to play together and remain together for the human race

[@christsfollower3550]

8 minutes in and I'm astonished at the life and times of Booker T. Washington. Im provoked to take action as a result of this and stand up and achieve. Thanks again for this... Im Speechless!!

[@brignjesus]

🙏 Amen

[@CajunLady333]

I can feel the excitement through the reading that Mr. Booker T. Washington felt as a child to learn. This led him to begin the Tuskegee Institute. Wonderful.

[@thatwasweird954]

It's a shame this recording skips over the chapter, "Helping Others." It's a significant chapter that discusses his Christian faith; his mother's death; how the coal mine strikes actually hurt people more than helped them; how being a janitor at his college taught him the dignity of hard labor; and how after graduation he was completely broke, but returned to his home town and became a prolific figure, teaching black children during the day & running a school at night for older black people; starting a reading room & debate society; and teaching two Sunday schools ...the list goes on and on. Just a remarkable life.

[@reelblack]

Indeed. I am glad you listened. And that you know.

[@thatwasweird954]

@@reelblack Yeah, nonetheless, thank for posting this. It's still a great reading by Ossie Davis.

[@kiwi9921]

Thanks for the information. I'll check my library app to see if it's available.

[@Chiller-pc1dv]

Love your profile pic! Also, did you notice the random bit of repetition, kind of like a record skipping? It just repeated a sentence, and It kinda freaked me out for a moment :'D

[@lionintu]

So is there a longer version that has the entire reading?

[@chrissymoss514]

This inspirational man has, like many others, left me extremely humbled. There were no defamation allegations, no hatred or bitterness and no self pity. Just a pure drive to learn and give to his people everything he fought hard to achieve for himself as a youth. A truly magnificent man.

[@shufordjackson1770]

TV in

[@the2ndcoming135]

Mad Facts💪🏽

[@oxrea]

Seriously!

[@chrissymoss514]

@@oxrea Sorry. I'm confused?

[@oxrea]

@@chrissymoss514 I'm agreeing with you 😂

[@stylecollective-qt9um]

Our teachers played these records for us on vinyl when I was a young elementary school girl: as students, we took all the copious notes our little fingers could, wrote reports, gave class speeches, and were tested on these great figures of history: in inner city schools it was important not only to learn history then, but specifically black history, to give students a sense of roots, sacrifice, and inspiration to strive. To my teachers, Mrs. Williams & Miss Grant who have passed on: the time and work you put into us to teach us about where we came from and the possibilities of where we could go were so important to the foundation of our youth and who we could become. Your work, like that of our friend Mr. Rellblack here, 😊 is greatly appreciated.

[@TheTomnom]

Style collective? :)

[@c.calliecoleman1531]

I live in Memphis and we have a school named after him. I went to a school on the other side of town, in the 60s, but there was always something powerful about that name Booker T. Washington High School. Back then we didn't study black history, and unless you were fortunate to have elders like Alex Haley had, that sat down and talked of your ancestors experience you were clueless. Thank God for Feb.Black History month that got me studying it,year long now. But I believe the kids that went to Booker T. High School were given a knowledge about it. I knew it was something different about them. Even their body seemed stronger. I knew they were tough, but I just figured it was the neighborhood. We were just told don't go in their neighborhood acting a fool, cuz they didn't play that. I spent lots of times playing in that area, because I had relatives there. Always had a good time. One thing for sure, after hearing this video Mr. Booker T. Washington is my best role model. I love him.🌷🌷🌷RIP BTW🌷🌷🌷❤

[@cosmopolitanwonder9675]

Cloveice Colemen it’s a pity you were not aware of the treatment of your fellow black Civil Rights movement in the late 50s through to the 70s that fought for the end off segregation as it was, and got black people the right to Vote in USA. I was at schooling in the UK at the time, we learned as ooh the atrocities going on in US, from our parents and family, plus the news, radio as it were then, Stoke Carmichael, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Junior, Jamie Foxx, now movie star, Chris Rock, many more you can find on YT, Angela Davis’s who is still alive and is a great inspiration and role model, who has written and fought, and imprisoned for those rights you have today, though as she says, so much more has to be done to rid society of the institutionalised methods of controlling black people still. There is still places blacks in US a segregated, and under educated, racially abused murdered and imprisoned, just because off the colour off their skin. It must end even if it takes another 100 years it will One day end. This is the fear the white racists feel, it rests on their consciences, and peoples eyes and minds are open wider than ever, Millions of black brown white people around thee world showed how they feel, after the evil Murder of George Floyd by 4 racists police, thanks to modern mobile videoing and live videoing at that, unheard of till recent years, police and governments cannot deny what they saw, no matter what George Floyd did in his life, he as millions before black white and children have gotten killed and police got away with it by lying and the victim unable to prove anything being dead, police enable each other, some from fear of their peers. Always be aware keep your onion on ready to record any atrocities, thanks to a 17 year old and one adult we’re we’re able to witness first hand the brutal murder of a man, who was lying on the ground in handcuffs not resisting just pleading for his life, for 8.43 minutes with a known racist cop kneeling and putting more pressure on his neck purposefully ending his life. It has to end.

[@thaxtonwaters8561]

I got this on vinyl. A treasure.

[@samweston8932]

I am sitting here crying, I can only imagine the pain and horror that they went through and I have no words my heart is hurting

[@lissettesbloom8223]

The point of this story is that he did not stay there he trusted God and rose above it and forgave. Many have suffered slavery. Even in the Bible. It’s a sad thing. But we can never stay there.

[@nnajidaveed9896]

​@@lissettesbloom8223respectfully shutup

[@DutchessJones]

Absolutely moving. Mind altering. A humbling mind blowing experience to listen how this man made it through all obstacles -Thanks for sharing 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@b-lodeedee]

Outstanding!! Thank you for making this audio book available. 🙏🏾👏🏿❤

[@kimberlyholley1993]

Wow, so glad this came up in my feed. Mr. Ossie Davis, really brought this to life. Great information.

[@beverlypatterson29]

When I start my school this recording must be listened by all of my students

[@MrPowerlyte]

I read this book a few years ago and it was an enlightening read to say the least but hearing Ossie Davis read some chapters to you, no words can really describe how cool this is!! Great Post!!

[@zjaz8000]

Great book! Greater man, Booker T. Washington! What a humble, strong, wise human being! What a life! And Ossie Davis… what can I say! What a reading …actually took me back to Mr. Washington’s times and experiences! Great reader and great narrator, Mr. Ossie Davis! Fantastic video, Reelblack One! Thanks a million!

[@sherrysims7767]

he was an amazing person this should be shared with our children to show them how this brilliant man and others paved the way for all of our future educations im so inspired.

[@ginamitembe8935]

It doesn't ñot matter where or how your born, if creator God has put his purpose in you, he will see it through, regardless of how many obstacles we face!!!!! 👍👍Booker T. Washington your message and memory lives on!!!❣️👏🌍🌍🌍🌍

[@cgcade1]

I am particularly struck by the story of the cap @42:02. The lesson that my mother taught was that she had the strength of character enough, not to led into the temptation of seeming to be that which she is not. Of trying to impress my schoolmates and others with the fact that she was able to but me a store hat when she was not. I always felt proud that she refused to go into debt for that which she did not have the money to pay for.

[@RayWimley]

Amazing

[@harambeegardens8705]

I am immensely proud of our Ancestors, who rose from the ashes of colonial & enslaving oppression, to become scholars, politicians, historians, entrepreneurs, leaders, etc. May we continue. Thx for the upload.❤🖤💚✊🏿👊🏿

[@sethunyanikuru1079]

Ase Ase Aseooooo

[@veronicabarnes9920]

And Still we Rise

[@greg7384]

Much to be proud of! Today, not much to be proud of with lazy, entitled victim cry babies.

[@harambeegardens8705]

@@greg7384 Hmmmm. Well, I can surely say, I'm extremely proud of this generation. After the death of George Floyd, the tireless protesting that went on 24hrs a day, every day, (of mostly youth) for literally MONTHS; the call for Beyonna's Law, the multiple, global organizations composed of youth from all countries, Afrikan youth standing next to Norwegian youth, standing next to Peruvian youth, etc., demanding indigenous rights and a reckoning of corporate pollution, exploitation & greed; the record youth who just went out & helped push out the Orange fascist in the Oval Office; and on, and on, and on. Many of these young people were beaten, maimed, and some even died in these efforts, makes me see them as heroines & heroes.

[@greg7384]

@@harambeegardens8705 Booker would not be proud, and as an educated and wise man he understood that the southern slave owners were victims themselves. He'd tell this generation to get off their lazy butts and do something with their lives instead of expecting the government or someone else to do it for them. America needs more men like Booker T. Washington.

[@thebridgewithraneejones8578]

I carry a burning torch of eternal admiration and love for Mr. Booker T. Washington and the scads of courageous men and women of African decent who were and are on the battlefields of civil rights for the underprivileged and underserved groups of people. This work is without end.

[@nickpoulsen9105]

Please also read some Thomas Sowell on the matter of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. It was very enlightening for me.

[@dhicksiz]

I've always been well aware of our history but its a beautiful thing to find such a book referenced on you tube and hearing Ossie (R.I.P) voice makes you feel your in touch with every word spoken & written by Booker T.

[@ourclassroom1570]

And i'm just real human. Booker T is among my top 5 best favorite people of any time period. He was a man of determination and NO-QUIT attitude. my highest admiration and respect for him. I have the book.

[@karrelwilliams2850]

I have a gift of closing my eyes and vividly recreate things....I can't stop crying because I could vividly see what he was going through and just imagine ppl go crazy if the power goes out...they couldn't stand one second in this mans shoes.....😐

[@nnajidaveed9896]

Take heart

[@ginaarmstrong1388]

Heavenly Thank You Mr. Ossie Davis! I enjoyed this and will pass it on!!

[@lidiasaragaco4343]

So, so enjoyable. The reading is superb and the writing of Booker T. Washington enthralling. Thank you for this.

[@patrioticjamaican2512]

The atrocities perpetrated against our enslaved ancestors were without a doubt the worst crimes ever, against humanity. However when you feel like giving up, let the strength of our ancestors build you up.

[@undergrace1808]

This is what they need students to listen to, not erase it. This is real history,.

[@TrueTrife]

I remember my interest in reading horror novels and guinness world record books as a kid eventually led me to discovering books about our black history. The first major book I read was the Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it left a huge impression on me. When I found this channel, it was a game changer - I’m still learning about things i thought i knew of thanks to the videos you feature, Reelblack!

[@assataafua2016]

I have read this book at least four times but Mr Davis reading it to me make me proud and motivates me the same way I felt when he read MalcolmX . eulogy This is empowerment personified!

[@sangredelic]

@ He had more in common with Malcolm X than Dubois

[@brandondrew739]

And they want us to forget this...NEVER forget.

[@786humaira1]

@Ann-Marie Paliukenas How long ? How long ? Still the oppressive Evil policies of Men , shows of in Millions dead and dying, disabled and displaced, in false pretence of WMD . Weapons of mass destruction , lies and onion layers of lies, going on even today, in YEMEN, SYRIA, IRAQ . and the blood thirsty has not quenched its thirst wants to do so in venezuela and Iran. The Devil is never at rest. But in Gods world there is no lack of good Men , who did not rest until they produced a defeat to the devil, by their constant hard work of reform of both the oppressed and the opressor. The oppressor is to be pitied as much if not more than the oppressed.

[@marylamb7707]

Brandon Drew No one wants anyone to forget. Remember always, so it never happens again. Just move on in a healthy way.

[@marypeters2344]

@Akoben Renaissance tell her. She is the daughter of Satan. Can't help her evil.

[@blakebortles6098]

the black gods the 1st devils

[@fonz1776]

Lmao there's still slavery in Africa.... but whitey is the problem???

[@constancefields8329]

I got a movie on Booker T Washington, n I can remember my Great Great great granny talk abt comin out of slavery n Dad showing us they house they lived in was those same quarters he spoke abt n we was kids n was Wowww! As children couldn't believe it one Room, but I'm glad to have shared my family history wit my children n to show them where they came from n photo so know never forget the struggle of our people

[@fredcaine2226]

One of the best videos that I've listened to all year, so much important knowledge for people, all races

[@CHISLUV]

Love Ossie Davis anyway, but love, love, love him reading this on audiobook. We think we know what slavery was, but we really have to continue educating ourselves and listen to the history directly from those who actually lived it firsthand. This is not just for us to know, but all Americans. Black History IS American History and all Americans should know it. Thankful for BTW and all our forefathers whose shoulders we stand on today.

[@louiscarrillo5873]

thank you u for uploading this. this smacked me in the face. reminding me of the power of will. an account for everyone.

[@richardlevert5772]

My father was often trapped many times in underground coal mines for weeks! However, Sir, Mr.Washington, I have built underground a mile below ground a mile deep because of Tuskegee Institute Thank you Mr. Booker T. Washington for my education as an Engineer; God knows I am very proud of you! Thanks.

[@Big_Daddy_CorkUSMC]

WHAT A FANTASTIC BOOK. IT WAS HEARTBREAKING BUT I NEED TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR SUFFERING AND HOW IT EFFECTS OUR NATION.

[@bacoleone5756]

That's the right way to go about it

[@tamikawilliams5688]

It affects millions of us every moment of every day 85% still living in impoverished situations, still living in segregated communities, more black men than ever incarcerated for low level non violent drug and other offenses. Our public schools in worse shape than ever and lastly more Blacks dead from high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes than ever before because of a fucked up FDA. My question to you is what exactly does this current generation of whites now having discovered the lies, and utter tyranny exacted upon us plan to do to help break down this system of white supremacy???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[@cosmopolitanwonder9675]

Tamika Williams Well here we are a yea later, after the murder, by 4 Minneapolis police, and change is hopeful. Millions of Black Brown White people around the world, protested for the end of police brutality and racism against our people, millions of white peoples mainly the young next adult generation, understand our plight, more than ever, thanks to the internet’s easy access to the truth about our history, and the devastation caused, even today 2020, by colonialism from the white peoples and the countries they built, on the backs of black people from Africa. Of colours their will always be some who will and don’t want to learn or are just straight up ignorant to the travesty caused by anything their evil historical past or present. Sadly there are too many black people in the USA, mainly Evangelical converts, who to this day, have been brainwashed to believe the white colonisers where right do the things they did and are doing still in the name of God. This saddens me as much, as the white people still controlling our lives today. A change will come, not soon enough. It will even if it takes a whole generation, people are much wiser now. Bless us all.

[@EvaAnika]

I was born over a century after the birth of Booker T Washington, but I'm so proud of my parents for giving my brother and I a love of books. It was in the spirit of our enslaved ancestors that they raised us. I give credit to all such parents for remembering the context in which we live in training their children accordingly.

[@princess3984]

Beautifully Narrated 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@MercutioGoinsSr]

I got to much of W.E.B Dubois and Malcolm X in me. There are instances where you can tell he thinks how slaves could've thought. I see why Dubois crossed swords with him. Good narration by the great Ossie Davis and I appreciate Booker T. Washington's story because it is his truth and I appreciate his works. Faith without works is dead.

[@CleverLoyal247]

I love Malcolm X

[@maryavery8571]

Booker T left a legacy for all of us to see..There is so much misinformation about this brother. He left a blue print along with Carver but as usual some chose the WIPIPO way and that's one of many reasons we are in the shape we're in the economic situation today. Read.

[@maryavery8571]

TuskegeeUniversity. We had our own businesses before temporary integration.

[@yrretgnortsmra8955]

@@billsmlth5381 No they are not.

[@billsmlth5381]

are too! Far more whites ARE and were slaves than blacks. Instead of whining and cry babying all the time why not do like the organizations that are freeing slaves NOW. BTW TODAY'S slaves are treated FAR WORSE than any in America

[@greenbyrd3665]

I have read the book, but this is one of those messages that deserves to be heard again and again. An inspiring message read by the late, truly great Ossie Davis. A pleasure to hear his very distinctive voice again. Thanks for posting.

[@nancykondos3386]

I have just now been greatly educated by Ossie Davis’ recitation of Booker T.Washington’s autobiography.

[@guleiro]

Saved it on my playlist to listen again. Simply outstanding ❤ From Angola, Africa

[@blyt5046]

Half way through,a wonderful read. Thank you Ossie Davis and to the uploader R.I.P. to north Mr. Washington & Mr.Davis

[@nyreedix1719]

AMAZING reading thank you Christ Jesus for installing in my forefathers n mothers LOVE, STRENGTHS, GREAT FAITH n YOU that FREEDOM IS SOMETHING EVERY HUMAN BEING DESERVED

[@tangie7]

I read the book last year...it was very inspiring.

[@giggs112008]

THANK YOU for posting....truly and greatly appreciated!!!

[@chanteej7137]

This is a jewel! Very well appreciated. Thank you for sharing our history ❤🙏🏾

[@marshascott4220]

I loved Ossie Davis, Narrating our black History, May he R.I.P Him and His Late Wife Ruby Dee💕💕

[@mca4093]

I'm a white guy who grew up in California. I learned about Booker T Washington when i was a kid and he has been one of my American heroes. Along also with Frederick Douglass. These men are the real deal. Their insights are invaluable to inderstand the socio economics and politicol atmosphere that supported the practice of slavery in the United States. They also provide a way to understand how to be resilient in the face severe opposition and tribulation.

[@singleobserver2764]

Still a stunning application of intelligence to the dystopian lifestyle he suffered through. His ability to maintain his humanity through it all is meritorious enough, but in many ways, a person under thirty years of age today would find it to be miraculous because it sounds so unreal to them.

[@monellerichmond7208]

His tone makes us uncomfortable in this day and age, but he not only struggled with extraordinary courage to better himself, but he spent his entire life working to create a better life for all black people. Easy for us to judge him from the perspective of 100 years later.

[@allisonblount8960]

So true

[@advils12]

Excellent, invaluable audio that should be embedded in every Negro, as Booker Taliaferro Washington so proudly describe himself. We are a people inherently, cased with the greatest determination on the planet. Let know one, or thing cloud your unmatch talents we all possess.

How is Africa doing?

[@DoubleTHebrew]

Living conditions was terrible. I feel so deeply sorry for our ancestors and what they went thru. America was built on slavery of the nergo race no other races went thru what we went thru. It's beautiful to be black 🙌

[@mcglanicglinmc5001]

Tony Israel-Judah wat do u mean “we” u didn’t go through the pain those poor people went through only they will ever understand true oppression

[@DoubleTHebrew]

@@mcglanicglinmc5001 WE has an now. The oppression we still endure. You see everyday. You can be envy all you want. Again I feel there pain. Just because I'm not getting beat physically they beating me mentally.

[@TheTomnom]

People are still enslaved today. It just doesn't belong to North American history so its not well documented.

[@DoubleTHebrew]

@@TheTomnom very true. I watch a video where it showed some of us in like Mexico, Asia, Africa. We are everywhere being treated like garbage. And YAH the most high Elohim sees everything.

[@sexyscorpio8087]

That's Why Where Ever I Live Where It Be In The Projects Or House I DON'T Complain Because I Know That There Are Those Who NEVER Had These THINGS. I'm Am GREATFUL EVERYDAY💝💝💝

[@conniedaniels6362]

If you want to find success , find education first.

[@pamelajordan5948]

The slave's wanted to be free where they gonna go? They made ,it to the mountain

[@whototeru]

I used to think that until I earned my PhD. Same stuff, only with more words to justify hypocrisy.

[@humanRace615]

Yup and own a business. I got my own trucking company going now. Its no excuses now why blacks can't make it. Only fear & Liberals holds us back.

[@wowso4]

Thank you for uploading this ❤

[@matthewICC]

This is amazing! Thank you for this! The magnanimity of this man and the people that he reflects upon is incredible. The idea that slavery hurt everyone, including the owners is something I overlooked. The consequence of relying on others leaving a lack of ability to thrive is real.

[@jakejhons5138]

One of the best biographies I have ever heard.

[@PatriciaMcAll]

Thank you for this magnificent and touching audio! Sharing...

[@StageAurora]

Simply astounding. Still as potent today.

[@dakarawilliams228]

Art of storytelling!

[@donnamckay2466]

What are you learning today at school son. Izayah mckay father. ,? Have fun. Amen

[@ms.gemini4657]

Some called him a Tom, but I dont buy it. I think he definitely was a man of his time, yet he was intelligent enough to rise above his circumstances

[@shevellewhips4322]

WHO, OUT OF ALL OF US, YOU HEARD WE CALLED OUR ELDER A FUCKIN TOM?! WE LOVE HIM!! YOU JUST A SNAKE!

[@shevellewhips4322]

@@stephdrake2521 YOU ARE ON HERE PROJECTING YOUR ENVIOUS LAME PALE DEVIL DUMBEST MIND!!

[@atritressfreeman5610]

S H ~~~and around his obstacles (" to the best of his endowed abilities"), OH my, I'd prefer to reason any beef between any doing these times were systematically designed and instigated...

[@kitkit8093]

@Jessica Hello w¹

[@dmnick123ify]

Agreed! He was right to say only history could judge him. Black industrialization was/is a good idea. Those are the tangible things that really run any economy. It is the foundation that wealthy people built their riches from. The bottom up approach.

[@sonquatsch8585]

god bless reelblack. never too late for black history.

[@brandondrew739]

Son Quatsch all year long!

[@chuckkady7282]

A TALE OF TWO AMERICAS by James D. Veltmeyer, MD Are we heading toward two Americas? Are we now engaged in a cold civil war? Are we on the cusp of national disintegration and separation? These trenchant questions would have elicited simple responses and quizzical stares in the 1940s and 1950s when, it might be argued, America was at the zenith of power, prestige, and national unity. Most Americans asked that question during the Eisenhower era would not have even understood what the query meant. We were a different country then and a far different country now. Just think back to that period in American history. We had just vanquished Nazism, fascism, and imperial Japan in the bloodiest war of all time. We alone held all the cards. We alone were the world’s superpower. No nation or bloc of nations could challenge our wealth, productivity, or military prowess. Europe was in ruins. Japan had been atom-bombed into submission. China was in civil war and while Stalin was advancing into Eastern Europe, the Russians had just lost forty million people in the war and the rest of its population was locked in a totalitarian dungeon. America in the 1950s was overwhelmingly white and Christian. Its immigrant populations of Irish, Italians, and Poles had successfully assimilated into the American culture. We spoke the same language, honored the same heroes of Valley Forge, Gettysburg, and Normandy, celebrated the same holidays, and, by and large, worshipped the same God. Families were intact, pre-marital sex was frowned up, divorce was uncommon, and drug abuse was rare. Prayer was permitted in the public schools and graduation ceremonies that did not invoke the Almighty would have been unthinkable. Abortion was illegal almost everywhere. And, even if it had not been illegal, it would have been considered hugely immoral. Hollywood’s movies were clean and uplifting. Censors were not needed for “I Love Lucy” and “Father Knows Best.” Children obeyed their parents. And their parents obeyed God. Was everything perfect? Of course not. No human society is perfect. Yes, we had problems, the most glaring being segregation and civil rights. Yet, even in the midst of Jim Crow, African-Americans enjoyed a prosperity unparalleled in human history. Black families stayed together. Out-of-wedlock births were a fraction of today’s number. And, even in the South at the height of segregation, black and white children played on the same playgrounds and their mothers and fathers worked side-by-side However, something happened in the decade of the 1960s. It was determined by a handful of elites in government, academia, and the media that the America of Dwight David Eisenhower was bad, boring, or worse. Suddenly, we were told “God Is Dead” and that man is the alpha and omega of all things. That led to an insurrection against all authority throughout all sectors of American society. It was now OK for students to burn American flags and draft cards, to occupy college campuses and spew forth profanity in the name of “Free Speech.” African-Americans were told it was all right to loot, pillage and burn down cities. The Warren Court chimed in, creating new Constitutional “rights” out of thin air, letting the malcontents and America-haters believe that everything they were doing was just fine, a praiseworthy example of “dissent.” Those who believed in the traditional America of the 1940s and 1950s didn’t fight back. They were what President Nixon called the “Silent Majority.” Convinced by the elites that “intolerance” was the worst of all malignancies, they failed to stand up to those tearing America down. Yes, they cast votes for Republican Presidents but those Presidents themselves lacked the will to resist the barbarians at the gate. They let the Left set the agenda, allowed the Left to demonize anyone who aligned with traditional values, and offered little but token resistance to the onslaught. Fifty years later, the results are predictable. The fissures have widened and the divisions in American society have only become deeper and more permanent. Facing little opposition from the standard-bearers of American truth, the left-wing mob become empowered and emboldened. Constantly moving the goal posts, they demanded more and more concessions from us. Abortion in the “hard cases” now became a right to third-trimester abortions, even to the moment of birth. Tolerance for non-believers meant tearing down creches, menorahs, or monuments of the Ten Commandments, forbidding Christmas carols and abolishing Christmas and Easter in favor of “Winter” and “Spring” holidays. A less judgmental attitude on sex now meant homosexual marriage and transgender “rights” to bathrooms and sports teams. Even pedophilia is okay in the view of some of their enlightened “academics.” “Equal rights” which promised to judge individuals on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin was turned upside- down as “identity” politics took over, pigeonholing each of us into arbitrary racial, ethnic, and gender cubicles which would define what we had to think and believe. A holiday for Martin Luther King now meant subsuming Washington and Lincoln to something vaguely called “President’s Day” and tearing down historical monuments to any American hero who happened to be white, male, and Christian from Christopher Columbus to Robert E. Lee. It has now come full circle. The Left has never been more brazen nor has it been more bizarre. The leading Democrat candidate for President has staffers who want to put conservatives in “re-education camps” and execute landowners. Another candidate vows to give a 9-year old so- called “transgender” child first pick for U.S. Secretary of Education. All Democrat candidates agree on free health care for illegal immigrants and most want to abolish the U.S. border outright. They endorse outright lawlessness as they embrace sanctuary cities and turn a blind eye to vagrants and drug addicts taking over the streets of our major cities. Can you now see why some argue that liberalism is actually a form of mental illness? Does any of this make any sense at all? We are indeed living in two Americas. One is what Hillary called the America of “deplorables”: the smelly Walmart shoppers who cling to their God, their Bibles and their guns. The other America is the America of the rage-filled, hate-filled coastal elites, from New York and Washington, D.C. to Hollyweird and Silicon Valley. They are contemptuous of everything we believe and everything we cherish. They are cultural nihilists who wish to raze to the ground the America we know and build their new godless socialist utopia upon its ashes. They are the children and grandchildren of the 1960s troublemakers. They hate the America of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison. They hate you. For fifty years, they have been getting almost everything they wanted and they have totally transformed America in the process. They succeeded because a series of feckless leaders failed to take them on. Until now. This election will determine which America wins. The stakes could not be higher. In President Donald Trump, the Left has finally met its match. We pray to God he prevails again this November. Dr. James Veltmeyer is a prominent La Jolla physician voted “Top Doctor” in San Diego County in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019. Dr. Veltmeyer can be reached at [e-mail]

[@sonquatsch8585]

@Michael Vannuffel yes. that's why most spainards are dark, but between 4000 bc and 1800 AD everyone was enslaved by everyone else... but you have no references, and USA is the only modern nation who profited from, kept and denied the free slaves the same rights as the rest of its citizens. that is the point of the modern times slave trade. slaves in america were the REASON FOR THE SEASON of americas wealth and are treated to this day as second class. pointing fingers is not helping your case. in MOST slave situations from England, India, China, ancient Africa and Egypt, it was possible for a slave to purchase their freedom. slavery in essence was a type of indentured servitude. in most slavery situations, you were not enslaved for GENERATIONS. you could be enslaved and still be freed and be a part of normal society. the difference in chattel slavery was that it was the most recent and went on for nearly 500 years generation after generation without pay and without the chance to purchase freedom with few exceptions. after slavery blacks were through jim crow laws STILL enslaved well into the 60s and 70s then it goes very underground in terms laws and other policies designed to hold blacks back in THEIR country. this is different from the example you named. you have got to understand the minutiae that differentiates american slavery from all other types. slavery has been apart of human history yes, but america was considering itself free, free from religious persecution monarchy, and perhaps the biggest point i will make here, was ITS CONSTITUION said all men (men must=MAN=women=BLACKS WHITES all POC were created equal..) so in its constitution SLAVERY was by default hypocrisy. this was the first time a country VIA slavery went against its own doctrine. open your eyes and stop pointing fingers. conquering nations happened throughout history and slavery was usually apart of that, but america was indeed a special case that disallowed the institution of slavery via its constitution, but continued it anyway.

[@sonquatsch8585]

@Michael Vannuffel only after pressure was placed on the ruling elite to do so...meanwhile blacks were doing for other blacks via revolts and underground railroad to escape slavery. EVEN if whites were sole responsible for ending slavery, sorry, you don't get a pat on the back for righting a wrong.

[@sonquatsch8585]

@Michael Vannuffel agree, but whites invented this division. Anton Blumenbach look him up.

[@caribbeanqueen4535]

Even though and through it all we stilled showed kindness to our oppressors and their ancestors. There is no other people and nobody can tell me differently like the black people. Proud to be one. 🖤

[@noneexistent2781]

No that's nothing to be proud of😠

[@lisawalker8815]

We've always had the moral authority.

[@susan137]

The greatness of a civilization can bestl be seen in how the least of its citizens is treated. The only way a people can be great is to do what is morally upright, not by cultivating and harbor the examples set by those who were not actually a great civilization.

[@aisha6577]

we?

[@oliviamonteque6407]

YOU ARE 200% CORRECT! THERE IS NO ONE SO FULL OF HUMANITY LIKE THE TRUE ISREALITES. EVEN THE ONES THAT CALL THEMSELVES BLUES JUMP UP TO TAKE REVENGE AT THE SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION, AND THEY MAKE SURE IT IS AT LEAST 3 TIMES WORST THAN WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM.

[@heyitsablackguy9553]

Two of my favorite greats! Rest In Power.

[@richardlevert5772]

RIP; Mr. Washington. The White did not hear him...u cannot convert a Devil!!

[@billsmlth5381]

but I like it here with my homies! I love to help people.

[@themostgraciousqueenmarger2015]

My grandfather was born in Belize the same year this was written.

[@drandrewm]

"The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory house now is infinitely more important than an opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house..."

[@odrikronnin-gamer6579]

To make the most of what you have, to value personal effort, and wonder for a new world, this book is timeless and inspiring.

[@jacquidavismccaulley6321]

I am shook! Thank you for sharing. 🙏🏾❤️

[@dmcyoungyoung638]

As a Licensed Psychotherapist, I can hear just how deep our trauma is embedded into our collective psyche as descendents in the diaspora. Booker T salvaged what he could of his humanity for his day and time. It is our responsibility to reclaim new levels of our humanity in each generation.

[@essiebryant2939]

Wow what an awesome story of slavery a story everyone should hear especially young black kids to see how hard Booker T Washington had it in life the things he had to go through to become the man that he was. We all should appreciate what this man did to make it in this life and how important it is to do a good job and whatever you're trying to do or accomplish hard work will pay off and a good education, he refused to believe that he couldn't do it he had a hard life sleeping outside under a sidewalk working in a coal mine wearing the kind of shirt that was painful the material was what a story growing up a slave and he turned things around and became this wonderful man that he was two thumbs up to him! so unfortunate he had to go through such a hardship...

[@mosellafelder2171]

Very good Story by Mr. Booker T. Washington and narration by the late Mr. Ossie Davis!!!

[@ericgoldberg1079]

Thank you God for Booker T. Washington 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@oldschool553]

I'm disgusted this man is either hidden or entirely dismissed. What a great man and a great gift to all of mankind.

[@the2ndcoming135]

Amen

[@williecasey3062]

The desir to read by Booker T. Washington & Frederick Douglass is the cross road to freedom for all "People".

[@aprilskies1051]

Excellent audiobook which should never be allowed to be forgotten. Written all those years ago, it is still as important today as it was in the year it was written. Marginalisation of a sector of people be they black, white, poor, indigenous is prevalent and teachers ànd society should take time to provide equality of opportunity for all.

[@aws21st]

Booker T Washington up from slavery is his Truth. I see that examination of the time of his life, that he and his peers where in a very complex, and traumatic time. The humanity and determination revealed from blacks in a nation who treated most black people as animals , is mind blowing. Regardless of your view point of ancestor Booker T Washington we can learn from his character and accomplishments to empower ourselves, family and community.

[@RuralmoneyOfficial]

I read this book and gave it to my son. BTW was plain spoken, humble, very intelligent and shrewd. Tuskegee Institute is to his credit. Dubois hated him and left nothing to show for his living or being among the talented tenth of the labor force.

[@SuperWayne79]

Why Dubois hate him so much?

[@anon9060]

@@SuperWayne79 Dubois was a socialist. Washington was a capitalist. As the song and dance goes, these two verse tend not to match the same melody.

[@sabrinabreaux1727]

Thank you for sharing this .

[@amunra8247]

May his soul rest in peace it pains me to know the sacrifices made 🇬🇭🇬🇭

[@jacquelynn2051]

Amazingly thoughtful heartfelt historial oratory.

[@tobyfox1638]

Also had to read this book in my college black history class. I took this book to work and read it on my lunch break just couldn't put it down.

[@Yadah-AL]

Beautiful life story and both enlightening and encouraging

[@joanietaylor-mitchell8559]

Sooo Amazingly Needful in Seasons 2021

[@altagraciamarte56]

Our schools today should play this for our children to listen to. Educate our children .

[@majesticallymade6177]

D . I . Y

[@the2ndcoming135]

@@majesticallymade6177 exactly. They not good enough to homeschool or something? Or, is waiting for Lamont to propose more important?😆

[@786humaira1]

Great Reformer of the people. Wish some Reformer is born again to enthuse the newer generation of today. To reform to stay away from drugs and violence and stop wasting youthful lives on the streets.

[@atritressfreeman5610]

humaira ali ~~~ not only dont the youth of today can't handle the truth they ain't wanting to hear it really, sucks and sad but oh so true... most will want to deflect, many with no patience to (as our ancestors had) to endeavor despite odds and obstacles, sad sucking but they'd rather be hostile bullies toward their own picking battles with as opposing focusing upon self INTEGRITY and honors of WHO we are as well as that/their uncommon capabilities...

[@TheTomnom]

Great man indeed

[@moreiscomingeasy6710]

Thank you for teaching me. I'm not an American. I find this book inspiring, to all humans, no matter race age and gender. Cos this is a great presantetion of truth

[@veronicabarnes9920]

I have this piece of work inspiring particularly in the climate of change we as Black (regardless of our geographical location) people are living in at this moment in time

[@PathfinderHistoryTravel]

What an amazing role model. Determination and effort to stand out and persevere. If you out work everyone else, and are honest, you will go far. 1:33:53 is inspirational. No matter our ancestry, America needs more young people to pursue being Doctors, Engineers, Computer Scientists, Teachers and Entrepreneurs. If not a professional career then labor of any kind that you can be successful at. That is the path. 1:36:02 is mind blowing. I want to get up and cheer! “We can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand.”

[@lobsterwhisperer7932]

Booker T was the most underated wcw champion.

[@coachcarlosjohnson]

Thank you Booker T ....THANK YOU ✊🏾 Mandatory reading MANDATORY

[@cordellsenior9935]

Substance over nonsense. "Draw the line between the superficial and the substantial." He''d be rolling over in his grave right now to see how many have embraced this empty, territorial, tribal, king of da neighborhood, hip-hop culture created by record labels.

[@sangredelic]

He observed the same behaviors back then, which is why he believed what he did.

[@cordellsenior9935]

@@sangredelic But those behavior are on steroids now.

[@alvinfrazier4152]

He surely would.

[@cordellsenior9935]

@@sangredelic I get your drift. But he didn't observe (or predict) the exponentially negative (planned, targeted and systemic) influx, impact and influence of crack cocaine, gansta and "hip hop", rap culture and blind consumerism.

[@kimaransom7416]

AWESOME! This book should be required reading for middle and/or high school students. It’s astonishing how the information Booker T. Washington shares in his autobiography relates to the lives of Black people today.

[@yvngxoo]

I love this 🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@natalietank]

This is the most important account I have ever been blessed to hear. Thank you