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Booker T Washington "Atlanta Compromise" Speech 1895: Elmts to Include

Booker T Washington "Atlanta Compromise" Speech 1895: Elmts to Include. (Oops…) Be sure to follow instructions ("consigne") Main point(s) (i.e., objective[s], [un]stated) of text Support docs Context / Bkgrnd Author/Orator Audience Rhetoric. Context / Bkgrnd. Allusions/hints in text

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Booker T Washington "Atlanta Compromise" Speech 1895: Elmts to Include

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  1. Booker T Washington "Atlanta Compromise" Speech 1895:Elmts to Include • (Oops…) Be sure to follow instructions ("consigne") • Main point(s) (i.e., objective[s], [un]stated) of text • Support docs • Context / Bkgrnd • Author/Orator • Audience • Rhetoric

  2. Context / Bkgrnd • Allusions/hints in text • l 9 dawn of our freedom, ll 77, 96 30 years l 33 leap from slavery to freedom • l 12 seat in Congress • l 34-37 productions of our hands, common labor, common occupations, etc. • l 88 agitation of qtns of social equality = folly • l 105(?) racial animosities • Subsequent events • Plessy 1896 • Sp-Am War 1898

  3. Context / Bkgrnd "I am just as much opposed to Booker T. Washington as a voter as I am to the cocoanut-headed, chocolate-colored typical little coon who blacks my shoes every morning. Neither is fit to perform the supreme function of citizenship."James K. Vardaman, future Gov of MS, 1901 1910 Total Population 92M AfAm Population 8M i.e., 9% • "The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they will learn their place again." • Benjamin Tillman, US Senator from SC • But the freedman remains. With him a problem without precedent or parallel. Note its appalling conditions. Two utterly dissimilar races on the same soil, with equal political and civil rights, almost equal in numbers, but terribly unequal in intelligence and responsibility […] • Henry Grady in Boston 1889 • Author/Orator • bn slave VA 1856 • Tuskegee 1881 • Up From Slavery 1901 • invited to Wh Hse 1901 • ✝ 1915 Tuskegee • Audience • Explicit: Mr Pres, Bd of Directors, Citizens • Implicit: Wh econ & political leaders (N&S), Bl • NB assumption that US is not one but N+S

  4. Main point(s) • Econ developmt ↔ cooperation of races • Cast down your bucket l 18,20,21,26,42... • Fingers and hand l 60-61 • Ignorant, unskilled Bls will • a) perform manual labor (➚ econ) • b) stay out of politics

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  6. English • give a speech • acknowledge

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