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Atlanta Compromise

What came to be known as the Atlanta Compromise stemmed from a speech given by Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute, to the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 18, 1895.[1][2][3] It was first supported[4] and later opposed by W. E. B. Du Bois[5] and other African-American leaders.

In the speech, also known as the Atlanta Exposition Speech, Washington promoted vocational education, industrial occupations, and the learning of other practical trades that would give African Americans opportunities for economic advancement and wealth creation rather than other more intellectual pursuits such as higher education.[2][3][6][7] At least for the present, Washington proposed, Blacks would not focus their demands on equality or integration, and Northern whites should fund black educational charities.[8][9] Booker T. Washington urged blacks to "cast down your bucket where you are" - emphasizing his view that they should stay in the South and try to make the most of their situation.

American Negro Academy

Niagara Movement

NAACP

Croce, Paul (2001). W. E. B. Du Bois: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group.  978-0-313-29665-9.

ISBN

(1986), Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915, Oxford University Press, pp. 71–120.

Harlan, Louis R.

Harlan, Louis R. (2006), "A Black Leader in the Age of Jim Crow", in The Racial Politics of Booker T. Washington, Donald Cunnigen, Rutledge M. Dennis, Myrtle Gonza Glascoe (eds), Emerald Group Publishing, p. 26.

Lewis, David (2009). W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography 1868-1963. Holt Paperbacks.  978-0805088052.

ISBN

The Betrayal of the Negro, from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson, Da Capo Press, 1997, pp. 275–313.

Logan, Rayford Whittingham

of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address (1895).

Transcript

of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address (1895), including a response by W. E. B. Du Bois.

Transcript

a PBS documentary regarding Washington in 1895.

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow