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1  At the end of the exercises he read the telegram to the school.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII.

2  The great ambition of the older people was to try to learn to read the Bible before they died.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

3  The young man from Ohio who had learned to read the papers was considered, but his age was against him.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

4  He had never been to school a day in his life, but in some way he had learned to read and write while a slave.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

5  From the time that I can remember having any thoughts about anything, I recall that I had an intense longing to learn to read.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

6  In all my efforts to learn to read my mother shared fully my ambition, and sympathized with me and aided me in every way that she could.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

7  In the midst of my struggles and longing for an education, a young coloured boy who had learned to read in the state of Ohio came to Malden.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

8  At that time there was not a single member of my race anywhere near us who could read, and I was too timid to approach any of the white people.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

9  In the earlier days of freedom almost every coloured man who learned to read would receive "a call to preach" within a few days after he began reading.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

10  I determined, when quite a small child, that, if I accomplished nothing else in life, I would in some way get enough education to enable me to read common books and newspapers.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

11  I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose morals were as weak as their education.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

12  Before this I had never cared a great deal about it, but now I learned to love to read the Bible, not only for the spiritual help which it gives, but on account of it as literature.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

13  On the sixteenth of September, the day before I was to start for Atlanta, so many of the Tuskegee teachers expressed a desire to hear my address that I consented to read it to them in a body.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

14  Two years after this visit a letter came to Tuskegee from this man, which read like this: "Enclosed I send you a New York draft for ten thousand dollars, to be used in furtherance of your work."

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII.

15  The lessons taught me in this respect took such a hold upon me that at the present time, when I am at home, no matter how busy I am, I always make it a rule to read a chapter or a portion of a chapter in the morning, before beginning the work of the day.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

16  As soon as the coloured people found out that he could read, a newspaper was secured, and at the close of nearly every day's work this young man would be surrounded by a group of men and women who were anxious to hear him read the news contained in the papers.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

17  When I have read of labour troubles between employers and employees, I have often thought that many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.