Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech Northern visitors with the evidence of racial progress in the South. Washington soothed his listeners’ concerns about “uppity” blacks by claiming that his race would content itself with living “by the productions of our hands.” 12.9 Kb. 1
The atlanta exposition address The atlanta exposition address delivered by Booker T. Washington before the atlanta cotton states and international exposition atlanta, Georgia, September 18, 1895 21.31 Kb. 1
Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech Northern visitors with the evidence of racial progress in the South. Washington soothed his listeners’ concerns about “uppity” blacks by claiming that his race would content itself with living “by the productions of our hands.” 13.26 Kb. 1