This speech is often called the "Atlanta Compromise"
because Washington encouraged African-Americans to worry less about social segregation
and more about achieving economic security. But it was mainly aimed at whites, and he
used lots of imagery, most famously separate fingers on the same hand, to suggest to his
white audience that blacks did not seek to upset their social superiority, and that the
races could co-exist. The speech was essentially an acceptance, if not an endorsement,
of Jim Crow, which received the sanction of the courts one year later in Plessy v.
Ferguson. The speech represented a gradualist, some might say accomodationist, approach
to the race problem in the South. The most outspoken critic of Washington was W.E.B.
DuBois, who accused him of aiding and abetting a "national
crime."
Friday, July 8, 2011
In the "Atlanta Exposition Speech," what does Booker T. Washington want his fellow African Americans to do?
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