• The Atlanta Compromise was a proposal made in 1895 by African American leader Booker T. Washington. His proposal called for Southern blacks to accept segregation...
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    activists seeking equal rights. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta Compromise. Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political...
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    Washington and died in 1925. "The Atlanta Compromise" The opening of Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" speech to the Atlanta Cotton States and International...
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    in the Southern states. Washington's proposal – later called the Atlanta Compromise – permitted racial segregation and discrimination, in exchange for...
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  • speech in which he proposed a social and economic policy, called the Atlanta Compromise, that embodied Washington's solution the Negro problem in the South...
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    Massachusetts on September 18, 1895. The event is best remembered for the "Atlanta Compromise" speech given by Booker T. Washington on September 18, promoting racial...
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    The Compromise of 1877, also known as the Wormley Agreement, the Tilden-Hayes Compromise, the Bargain of 1877, or the Corrupt Bargain, was a speculated...
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  • context as "the compromise": Ioannina compromise Luxembourg compromise Compromise of 1790 Compromise of 1850 Compromise of 1877 Atlanta Compromise Connecticut...
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    the event is best remembered for the both hailed and criticized "Atlanta Compromise" speech given by Booker T. Washington in which Southern black people...
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    attacks by armed mobs of white Americans against African Americans in Atlanta, Georgia, began after newspapers, on the evening of September 22, 1906...
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    position was advanced in his influential Atlanta Exposition Speech in 1895, which was the genesis of the Atlanta Compromise. W. E. B. Du Bois advocated a more...
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  • Violence in the 1906 Atlanta race massacre Historical background Reconstruction era Voter suppression Disfranchisement Redeemers Compromise of 1877 Jim Crow...
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  • violence against black Americans during campaigns from 1868 onward. The Compromise of 1877 to gain Southern support in the presidential election resulted...
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  • September: Booker T. Washington gives "Atlanta Compromise" Speech. Atlanta Woman's Club founded. 1896 - Atlanta Conference of the Study of Negro Problems...
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    the Atlanta metropolitan area, encompassing both those of African-American ancestry as well as those of recent Caribbean or African origin. Atlanta has...
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    Violence in the 1906 Atlanta race massacre Historical background Reconstruction era Voter suppression Disfranchisement Redeemers Compromise of 1877 Jim Crow...
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    Violence in the 1906 Atlanta race massacre Historical background Reconstruction era Voter suppression Disfranchisement Redeemers Compromise of 1877 Jim Crow...
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    delivering his keynote speech on September 18, 1895 known as the Atlanta Compromise that attempted to promote racial cooperation, and was called "one...
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    The Birth of a Nation, inspired a revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Atlanta, Georgia. Gradually, the new Klan, often appealing to migrants to cities...
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  • Life Tuskegee Institute George Washington Carver 1895 Atlanta Exposition Speech Atlanta Compromise National Negro Business League 1901 White House dinner...
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    businesses were burnt. In 1915, Leo Frank, an American Jew, was lynched near Atlanta, Georgia. In 1913, Frank had been convicted of the murder of Mary Phagan...
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  • Violence in the 1906 Atlanta race massacre Historical background Reconstruction era Voter suppression Disfranchisement Redeemers Compromise of 1877 Jim Crow...
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    Violence in the 1906 Atlanta race massacre Historical background Reconstruction era Voter suppression Disfranchisement Redeemers Compromise of 1877 Jim Crow...
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    the Atlanta Compromise Plan. His "commanding and demanding personality" was largely credited for the exponential levels of desegregation in Atlanta. The...
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  • respect to Church and state issues. Accommodationism may also refer to: Atlanta Compromise, an agreement struck in 1895 between African-American leaders and...
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  • full potential, rather than the industrial education promoted by the Atlanta Compromise, endorsed by Booker T. Washington and some White philanthropists....
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    Life Tuskegee Institute George Washington Carver 1895 Atlanta Exposition Speech Atlanta Compromise National Negro Business League 1901 White House dinner...
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    wanted equal rights for blacks. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta Compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that...
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    against racial segregation in several landmark cases including Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964), which helped bring an end to the Jim...
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    order to raise money. Washington was the author of the speech "The Atlanta Compromise", which solidified his position of being an accommodationist while...
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