...docile, to respectfully lower the eyes before the white man boss. And for emphasis, Washington concluded: "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation...questions of social equality is the extremest folly — " 9 the South — and with the philanthropists and liberals of the North. By 1900 Booker T. Washington...

...our hands" was music to the ears of New South proponents. The same was true of his reassurance that "the wisest among my race understand that the agitation...questions of social equality is the extremest folly." The day after his speech, Washington urged the southern black man to stop "fretting and fussing over...

...national scene. In a speech at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895, Washington had declared: "the wisest of my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremes! folly." In exchange for limited economic progress, he seemed willing to accept continued...

...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....

...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....

...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....

...Washington was not through renouncing social equality. "The wisest among my race understand," he continued, "that the agitation of questions of social equality...that will come to us must be the result of severe constant struggle rather than of artificial folly." And he predicted that any race that could contribute...

...writings. His two other apparent rejections of social equality are equally equivocal, equally conditional: "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation...questions of social equality is the extremest folly," Washington says, "and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be...

...supremacy. In Atlanta Washington phrased his anti-protest stance in chastening terms: The wisest of my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremes! folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must...

...acceptance in either the black or the white world, was dead. The "wisest among my race," said Washington, "understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly," that "the opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity...