1 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. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 2 The greater part of the thirty were public-school teachers, and some of them were nearly forty years of age.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 3 The efforts of some of the men and women, who in many cases were over fifty years of age, to learn, were in some cases very pathetic.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 4 I recall one old coloured women who was about seventy years of age, who came to see me when we were raising money to pay for the farm.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 5 Many of them had aged parents who were dependent upon them, and some of them were men who had wives whose support in some way they had to provide for.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 6 A great many more students wanted to enter the school, but it had been decided to receive only those who were above fifteen years of age, and who had previously received some education.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 7 In every part of the South, during the Reconstruction period, schools, both day and night, were filled to overflowing with people of all ages and conditions, some being as far along in age as sixty and seventy years.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 8 In every part of the South, during the Reconstruction period, schools, both day and night, were filled to overflowing with people of all ages and conditions, some being as far along in age as sixty and seventy years.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V.