...Northern philanthropists, who have made their gifts a constant stream of blessing and encouragement. The wisest among my race understand that the agitation...constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized....

...Autobiography 317 lanthropists, who have made their gifts a constant stream of blessing and encouragement. The wisest among my race understand that the agitation...constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized....

...his speech at the Atlanta Exposition, In 1895, he said : "The wisest among my race understand that agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest...result of severe and constant struggle, rather than artificial forcing * * *. In all things that are purely social, we can be separate as the fingers,...

...veritable body of death stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic. . . . "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social eqnality is the extremest folly, aud that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will...

...be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. . . . The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly."20 Washington's social policy "compromise" was this: blacks would disavow open agitation for...

...approval. In appealing to economic solidarity, the Tuskegeean suggested that divisive issues be set aside. "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must...

...Negroes. At the Atlanta Cotton Exposition in the fall of 1895 he had clearly spelled out his position: "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must...

...Northern philanthropists, who have made their gifts a constant stream of blessing and encouragement. The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social quality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will...

...Northern philantbropists, who have made their gifts a constant stream of hlessing and encouragement. The wisest among my race understand that the agitation...enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must he the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial foreing. No race that has anything...

..."Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, in which he charted a moderate course for black Americans — "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremes! folly" — Booker T. Washington drew acclaim from white elites nationwide, including those...