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Born into slavery on a tobacco farm in nineteenth-century Virginia, Booker T. Washington became one of the most powerful intellectuals of the Reconstruction Era. As president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, he advocated for the advancement of African Americans through education and entrepreneurship....
Energetic, shrewd, and charming, Herman B Wells was the driving force behind the transformation of Indiana University—which became a model for American public higher education in the 20th century. A person of unusual sensitivity and a skilled and empathetic communicator, his character and vision shaped the structure, ethos, and spirit of the institution in countless ways. Wells articulated a persuasive vision of the place of the university in
...A person's life is composed of many ordinary days with a few significant and monumental moments mixed in. This book is about the separate monumental moments that I have experienced. One of these was "flying" out a nine foot window when I was only eight years old. I attended a one room grade school and was disciplined by being made to chew tobacco. I am the 11th of 12 children and was told by an older brother that I would never amount to anything
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