From Slave to College President - Godfrey Holden Pike - Bog

From Slave to College President is a definitive Booker T. Washington biography by Godfrey Holden Pike. Thus Booker Washington is not only the man of the hour to his own people; in him the Man who has been wanted for forty years has been found. Being somewhat over forty years of age, he was born in those portentous times towards the end of the sixth decade of the last century when the political horizon of the Republic was darkening and showing symptoms of the coming Civil War.