Character Building
eBook - ePub
Available until 27 Dec |Learn more

Character Building

  1. 766 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 27 Dec |Learn more

Character Building

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Two Sides of Life
  7. Helping Others
  8. Some of the Rocks Ahead
  9. On Influencing by Example
  10. The Virtue of Simplicity
  11. Have You Done Your Best?
  12. Don’t be Discouraged
  13. On Getting a Home
  14. Calling Things by Their Right Names
  15. European Impressions
  16. The Value of System in Home Life
  17. What Will Pay?
  18. Education that Educates
  19. The Importance of Being Reliable
  20. The Highest Education
  21. Unimproved Opportunities
  22. Keeping Your Word
  23. Some Lessons of the Hour
  24. The Gospel of Service
  25. Your Part in the Negro Conference
  26. What is to be Our Future?
  27. Some Great Little Things
  28. To Would-be Teachers
  29. The Cultivation of Stable Habits
  30. What you Ought to do
  31. Individual Responsibility
  32. Getting on in the World
  33. Each One His Part
  34. What Would Father and Mother Say?
  35. Object Lessons
  36. Substance vs. Shadow
  37. Character as Shown in Dress
  38. Sing the Old Songs
  39. Getting Down to Mother Earth
  40. A Penny Saved
  41. Growth
  42. Last Words
  43. A Note About the Author
  44. A Note from the Publisher