American Literature / Unit 12 AML 1121 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Atlanta Compromise
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The idea
In an eighteen ninety-five address Washington urged Black southerners to concentrate on trades and property, and told white southerners the races could be as separate as the fingers in all things purely social. Critics read it as accepting segregation.
In practice
Separate as the fingers, one as the hand.
Where people slip
The reading of the speech was contested at once.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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