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Henry Ford
Henry Ford (1863-1947)

entrepreneur, inventor, politician, racing automobile driver, journalist, industrialist, business magnate

  • Detroit Business Institute, Bryant & Stratton College

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The expanded and annotated My life and work
Today and tomorrow
My life and work
The International Jew
Moving forward
Mein Leben und Werk
The Quotable Henry Ford
Ford ideals
Edison as I know him
Quotations from the unusual Henry Ford
My friend Mr. Edison
The Henry Ford Muscle Shoals offer
Comments--peace vs. war
Ford on management
The only real security
My life and work
600 business law points for the business man, banker, lawyer, professional man, and farmer
My philosophy of industry, Henry Ford
Un tema de nuestro tiempo
El judío internacional
Der internationale Jude
Statement
El judio internacional
Wo de sheng huo yu gong zuo
Moi͡a zhiznʹ, moi dostizhenii͡a
Protocols of the learned elders of Zion
Mezhdunarodnoe evreĭstvo
Moi︠a︡ zhiznʹ, moi dostizhenii︠a︡
The case against the little white slaver
My philosophy of industry
The international Jew
Mo︠i︡a zhiznʹ, moi dostizheni︠i︡a
My views on liquor and the law
Things I've been thinking about
Things I've been thinking about
"Good morning"
Herman Cain
Herman Cain (1945-2020)

radio personality, politician, businessperson, journalist

  • Morehouse College, Purdue University

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Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972)

industrial engineer, psychologist, teacher, photographer, businessperson, inventor, mechanical engineer, engineer

  • University of California, Berkeley, Brown University

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The psychology of management
As I remember
The quest of the one best way
The psychology of management
Living with our children
The psychology of management
The foreman in manpower management
Management in the home
The home-maker and her job
Heim und Arbeit
Living with our children
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

educator, autobiographer, pedagogue, businessperson, politician, human rights activist, teacher

  • Hampton University

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Up from Slavery
The Booker T. Washington papers
The Booker T. Washington papers
Working with the hands
Words of Ages
My larger education
A new Negro for a new century
Three Negro classics
The future of the American Negro
The man farthest down
The story of the Negro
Three African-American Classics
Frederick Douglass
African American Literature
The Negro in the South
African-American Six Book Treasury - The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
If You Call My Name
The Negro in business
The story of my life and work
Tuskegee & its people: their ideals and achievements
The Negro in the South
Address prepared by Mr. Booker T. Washington
In Their Own Voices
Character building
Booker T. Washington Papers (13 Volumes and 1 Index)
Black History Collection
The Classic Slave Narratives
The Negro in the South, his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development
Education of the Negro
The Negro in the South, his economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development
The Negro Problem
The story of slavery
The Future Of The American Negro
The educational and industrial emancipation of the negro
Black-belt diamonds
Pāre ghartīko purushārtha
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
The rights and duties of the Negro
Address of Booker T. Washington
Seven Slave Narratives, seven books including
Booker T. Washington Papers Vol. 1
Character building
Three African-American Classics :
Colored American from Slavery to Honorable Citizenship
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 12
Three African American Classics : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Up from Slavery
Putting the most into life
Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery
An autobiography
Vom sklaven empor
A protest against the burning and lynching of Negroes
Address of Booker T. Washington, principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala
The Negro Problem
The story of my life and work an autobiography
Story of the Negro
The Negro problem / contributions by Booker T. Washington ... [et al.] ; with an introduction by Bernard R. Boxill
Address of Booker T. Washington, delivered at the alumni dinner of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., June 24, 1896, after receiving the honorary degree of master of arts
The story of my life and work
Negro in the South
The Hardwick bill
Booker T. Washington's Own Story Of His Life And Work
The Future of the American Negro
An address on Abraham Lincoln
An address by Booker T. Washington, prin., Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama
Souls of Black Folk, up from Slavery
Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development; Being the William Levi Bull Lectures for the Year 1907
Up From Slavery and The Atlanta Compromise Speech
Story of My Life and Work
Is The Negro Having A Fair Chance?
Address of Booker T. Washington ...
Negro education not a failure
Three African-American classics
A Will to Be Free (an African American Heritage Book)
Encouraging Words
Booker T. Washington's address at the jubilee Thanksgiving services
Booker T. Washington The Negro in Business
From Slave to College President
Pocket Guide to Writing in History 7e & Black Protest and the Great Migration & Souls of Black Folk & Up from Slavery
Souls of Black Folk & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery
Address of Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, delivered at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition, at Atlanta, Ga., September 18, 1895
African-American Six Book Treasury - the Souls of Black Folk, up from Slavery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
African-American Classic Three Book Set - The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Negro problem
Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery and The Life of Frederick Douglass
The story of my life and work, Booker T. Washington
Sowing and Reaping
Character Building
The Negro Problem
Character and Culture
The Booker T. Washington papers
Character Building
Booker T. Washington Collection
The Negro Problem
Character Building
Booker T. Washington Reader
Address prepared by Mr. Booker T. Washington for delivery at a dinner given by the members of the Union League Club on February 12, 1899
The Booker T. Washington papers
The Booker T. Washington papers
Addresses in Memory of Carl Schurz, Carnegie Hall, New York, November 21 1906
"The better part," speech of Booker T. Washington delivered at the peace jubilee, Chicago, October 16, 1898
Signs of Progress among the Negroes
Selected Short Works of Booker T. Washington (Esprios Classics)
The American Negro (Southern States)
The Story of my Life and Work
Character Building
One hundred selected sayings of Booker T. Washington
Women's Magazines, 1940-1960 & Up from Slavery & American Social Classes in the 1950s & Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era
Character Building
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery
Vom Sklaven Empor
Character Building (an African American Heritage Book)
The Story of the Negro
Builder of a Civilization by Booker T. Washington
Negro Problem
History's Greatest Speeches
Putting the Most into Life
Booker T. Washington Papers Collection
Negro Problem; a Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-Day;
Black Prostest and the Great Migration & Up from Slavery & Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s & ... & Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic
Women's Magazines, 1940-1960 & Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975 & 1912 Election and the Power of Progressivism & Up from Slavery
The Negro and the "Solid South;"
Handarbeit
Story of the Negro Volume II
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 10
Quotations of Booker T. Washington
Selected speeches of Booker T. Washington
The Story Of The Negro
Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery Volume 1 by Booker T. Washington
American Literature for Christian Homeschoolers, Volume 4
Story of the Negro
The Negro problem
Frederick Douglass
Story of My Life and Work
Will to Be Free
Story of the Negro
The Negro in the South
The Negro Problem
Character Building and the Story of Slavery
Free Associations
Character Building and The Story of Slavery
Sowing and reaping
Story of the Negro the Rise of the Race from Slavery, Vol. 2
Character Building
Monument to Robert Gould Shaw
The Negro in the South
Up from Slavery with Related Documents
Ātmoddhāra
Future of the American Negro and the Atlanta Compromise Speech
The Story of My Life and Work
Negro Problem
The Negro Problems
Atlanta Compromise
Story of the Negro
Up from memory
Booker T. Washington Collection
Character Building : A Musical
Up from Slavery and the Atlanta Compromise Speech
Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery II
The Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery
Negro in Business
Story of My Life and Work an Autobiography;
Story of the Negro the Rise of the Race from Slavery, Vol. 2 Paperback
Character Building
The Story of the Negro
The Future of the American Negro
The Negro in the South
The Story of my Life and Work
Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery; Volume 01
The Negro problem
Manson Family Murders 50 Years On
The Negro Problem
The story of my life and work an autobiography;
Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 3
Charakterbildung
Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 14
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle & Southern Horrors and Other Writings & Up from Slavery & Harlem Renaissance
Story of My Life and Work [microform]
Character Building
Free Associations
American Literature for Christian Homeschoolers, Volume 3 : Up from Slavery
Story of Slavery
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
The Future of the American Negro and The Atlanta Compromise Speech
Story of My Life and Work (Esprios Classics)
The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development
The future of the American Negro
The Negro and the signs of civilization
The story of my life and work
The Works of Booker T. Washington : Up From Slavery
Will to Be Free (an African American Heritage Book)
The story of the Negro, the rise of the race from slavery.By : Booker T. Washington
Story of My Life and Work
The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development
Metaphysics of Love
An autobiography
The Negro problem
Me-ʻavdut le-ḥerut
The free Negro in slavery days
Address of Booker T. Washington, principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala
The papers of Booker T. Washington
Story of slavery
Memórias de um Negro Americano
The Negro problem
The negro in business--
The Negro problem
The story of the Negro
The story of my life and work
The Negro problem
The Negro in the South
Hei nu cheng ming ji
The New York times
Booker T. Washington Papers, 1889-1895 Vol. 3
The fruits of industrial training
Hei wei ren
The successful training of the Negro
Some European observations and experiences
An autobiography
Some results of the Armstrong idea
Memórias de um Negro
On Mother Earth
Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Istitute, Tuskegee, Alabama. Delivered at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition, at Altanta, Ga. Sept. 18, 1895
Black Diamonds
The Negro and the labor unions
An autobiography
Some European observations & experiences
Industrial training for the Negro
Letter of Booker T. Washington on the negro and the farm labor problem of the South
Booker T. Washingtons̓ own story of his life and work
The story of the Negro
The Booker T. Washington chronicles
Law and order and the Negro
The Papers of Booker T. Washington, 1864-1960
Booker T. Washington Papers, 1906-1908 Vol. 9
Daily resolves
Vom sklaven empor
The story of my life and work
An open letter to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, February 19, 1898
Frederick Douglass
Hei nu cheng gong zhe zi zhuan
Excerpts from the Congregationalist and Christian world
Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory (1932-2017)

comedian, social activist, social critic, entrepreneur, athletics competitor, politician, autobiographer, political activist

  • Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Jeff Yang
Jeff Yang (born 1968)

businessperson, journalist, television producer

  • Harvard University, Harvard College

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Karna Shakya
Karna Shakya (born 1943)

businessperson

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Arifur Rahman
Arifur Rahman (born 1984)

cartoonist, editorial cartoonist, animator, illustrator, entrepreneur, actor, director, film director, politician

  • National University, Bangladesh, Nansen Academy

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