Booker T. Washington 
Up From Slaves 
’Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve overcome”

Booker Taliaferro Washington was born, it is thought, in 1856.Born into slavery Washington grew up to be a formidable advocate of black rights.Perhaps he is best remembered for his speech in 1895 known as 'The Atlanta Compromise’ calling for progress via education and entrepreneurship, rather than a direct challenge on the Jim Crow segregation and its attendant disenfranchisement of African-Americans, who at that time still lived mainly in the South.His auto-biography narrates both the hardships and the successes of his difficult life.