charcter sketch of booker's mother in up from slavery
Booker’s Mother
She was an absolutely definitive influence on Booker’s life. She lived nearly all of her life as a slave, but never gave up hope that the Emancipation would come. She supported Booker in every endeavor he tried especially his desire for an education. She knew how much wearing a cap to school meant to him and that in spite of her deep poverty, she found a way to make him one. Booker said ever afterward that no cap or hat he ever owned meant as much. She taught him