1 In this letter he gave them my name.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. 2 My name was the last on the list of speakers.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 3 There was seldom occasion for more than the use of the one name.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 4 My second difficulty was with regard to my name, or rather A name.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 5 Many became teachers who could do little more than write their names.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 6 We had no money whatever with which to begin; still we decided to give the needed building a name.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 7 The bigger the book and the longer the name of the subject, the prouder they felt of their accomplishment.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 8 Before going to school it had never occurred to me that it was needful or appropriate to have an additional name.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 9 We knew we could name it, even though we were in doubt about our ability to secure the means for its construction.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 10 I was in deep perplexity, because I knew that the teacher would demand of me at least two names, and I had only one.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 11 Many of the coloured people took advantage of the occasion to get him to write his name in a book or on a slip of paper.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIV. 12 When my name was called, I rose, and President Eliot, in beautiful and strong English, conferred upon me the degree of Master of Arts.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 13 When I heard the school-roll called, I noticed that all of the children had at least two names, and some of them indulged in what seemed to me the extravagance of having three.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 14 Washington was called, and he arose to acknowledge and accept, there was such an outburst of applause as greeted no other name except that of the popular soldier patriot, General Miles.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 15 After the lunch we were formed in line again, and were escorted by the Marshal of the day, who that year happened to be Bishop William Lawrence, through the grounds, where, at different points, those who had been honoured were called by name and received the Harvard yell.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 16 By the time the occasion came for the enrolling of my name, an idea occurred to me which I thought would make me equal to the situation; and so, when the teacher asked me what my full name was, I calmly told him "Booker Washington," as if I had been called by that name all my life; and by that name I have since been known.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 17 After the coming of freedom there were two points upon which practically all the people on our place were agreed, and I found that this was generally true throughout the South: that they must change their names, and that they must leave the old plantation for at least a few days or weeks in order that they might really feel sure that they were free.
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