Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech

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Americans have used the term "black" or "negro" to describe all persons with any African ancestry. The rules were really tricky about being black. There was a black leader who leaded African American in twenty five years from 1890 to 1915. He had a speed of the African American which was known as Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech. The speech became one of the most significant speeches in American history.
First, we can see that Washington characterize the political ambitions of African-Americans through his speech. For example, he asked for the equal between black and white people in the economy, so he said: "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." Washington knew that black and white people were different at this time and he could not ask for completely equal for his race, but he wanted people can be together as fingers in the hand. After the Civil War, Washington described the social and relationship between black and white people was better and he recognized the value of black people in economy and he noted it in very beginning of his speech: "One-third of the population of the South is of the Negro race... the

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