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Booker T. Washington 
Booker T. Washington Delivered What Some Consider One Of The Most Important Speeches Of The 20th Century, On September 18, 1895. The Atlanta Compromise, As It Is Known, Was Given At The Cotton States And International Exposition, In Atlanta, Georgia.
Washington's Speech Has Been Described As Conciliatory, Among Other Things. In It He Advised Black Americans To Put Less Focus On Social Advancement And Become More Proficient In Common Labor Such As Mechanics, Agriculture And Domestic Work -- Subsequently, "Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are," Became The Theme For The Historic Oration.
At The Time Of His Speech, Booker T. Washington, The Founder Of Tuskegee Institute, Was Considered The Most Influential Black Man In America. Blacks Comprised One Third Of The Southern Population, While Totaling Approximately 8 Million, In The United States. Whites Were Concerned About African Americans' Increasing Desire For Civil Rights.
Washington Eased Their Fears By Pointing Out How "Loyal" And Devoted To Serving Whites," African Americans Had Always Been.
He Told White America That Its Success And Prosperity Was Directly Tied To The Way They Treated Black Americans. He Encouraged Whites To Employ Blacks Rather Than Giving Away Jobs To Immigrants --"In All Things That Are Purely Social, We Can Be As Separate As The Fingers Yet One As The Hand."
If White Americans Responded Enthusiastically To Washington's Speech, Black Leaders Such As W.E.B. Du Bois, Educator John Hope And A.M.E. Bishop, Henry McNeal Turner, Were Equality As Critical Of It. Turner Said,
"the colored man who will stand up and in one breath say that the Negroid race does not want social equality and in the next predict a great future in the face of all participation of which the colored man is a victim, is either an ignoramus or is an advocate of the perpetual servility and degredation of his race."
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Posted By: Hugh Gaddy
Thursday, September 17th 2009 at 7:16PM
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Yes but he was mocked by self righteous and self serving Black Elites because He taught self reliance. Marcus Garvey was highly inspired by Booker T. Washington and he was hated by these same class too! Because Booker T wasn't protest driven like W.E.B Dubious and others whom felt duped by white society due to their being highly educated but overlooked for being black. Such is the problem with African American Elites and their fool hearted politics over excessed with protesting, speaking out and making compliant about their unfair treatment and condition instead of doing something tangiable about it.
If we didn't fear love and supported each other, taught our youth quality traditions we could rise very fast almost over night. After the Black Holocaust and Jim Crow terrorism against African Americans we pretty much became afraid of being independent and self reliant. And became more like the W.E.B Dubious types protesty ,marches and speeches that don't put food on our tables nor business within our communities.
If you look at the secret societies or fraternity's of Africa many of them taught against adepts speaking out and complaining constantly about right and wrong. We have become so morally self righteous yet still our belly's are empty and we have not respect in the world. Time to grow up! Time to start building and think of securing what we build by any means necessary!
Friday, September 18th 2009 at 8:35AM
John Washington
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John, I agree. There were and will ALWAYS be differing Ideologies with regard to justice for Black people. And you're also correct about Garvey being inspired by Washington. Later, Malcolm was inspired by Garvey... and so on. There's validity and wisdom, in all the varying schools of thought.
Friday, September 18th 2009 at 9:13AM
Hugh Gaddy
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