As we have proved our loyalty to you in the past, in nursing your children, watching by the sick-bed of your mothers and fathers, and often following them with tear-dimmed eyes to their graves, so in the future, in our humble way, we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach, ready to lay down our lives, if need be, in defense of yours, interlacing our industrial, commercial, civil, and religious life with yours in a way that shall make the interests of both races one.
In 1881, Booker created the same school but in Alabama, which was called the Tuskegee Institute. These efforts will be twice blessed — blessing him that gives and him that takes.Gentlemen of the Exposition, as we present to you our humble effort at an exhibition of our progress, you must not expect overmuch. In 1895, he was invited to deliver a speech at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, which was later on called “The Atlanta Compromise Speech” by journalists. Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden.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 be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. This institute taught Washington skills rather than educational studies. Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor, and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the substantial, the ornamental gewgaws of life and the useful. Full transcript of Booker T. Washington’s “The Atlanta Compromise” speech on September 18, 1895. And in this connection it is well to bear in mind that whatever other sins the South may be called to bear, when it comes to business, pure and simple, it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world, and in nothing is this Exposition more eloquent than in emphasizing this chance.
It is a recognition that will do more to cement the friendship of the two races than any occurrence since the dawn of our freedom. No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our … A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. All rights reserved.The Blessing of the Fleet is a centuries-old tradition originating in southern European, predominantly Catholic, fishing communities.Browse artworks from Georgia's State Art CollectionBarbecue (barbeque, BBQ, BarBQ) is a popular cooking method used primarily for meats served at parties, picnics, family gatherings, and fund-raisers. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal, "Water, water; we die of thirst!" Atlanta Compromise, classic statement on race relations articulated by Booker T. Washington, a leading black educator in the United States in the late 19th century. President and Gentlemen of the Board of Directors and Citizens:Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions. Find NGE content that is correlated to the Georgia Performance StandardsCopyright 2004-2020 by Georgia Humanities and the University of Georgia Press. Effort or means so invested will pay a thousand percent interest. In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.While we take pride in what we exhibit as a result of our independent efforts, we do not for a moment forget that our part in this exhibition would fall far short of your expectations but for the constant help that has come to our educational life, not only from the southern states, but especially from northern philanthropists, who have made their gifts a constant stream of blessing and encouragement.Nearly sixteen millions of hands will aid you in pulling the load upward, or they will pull against you the load downward. In a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 18, 1895, Washington asserted that vocational education, which gave African Americans an opportunity for economic security, was more valuable to … Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.There is no escape through law of man or God from the inevitable:One-third of the population of the South is of the Negro race.
Du Bois later as a criticism of the views Washington presented in that speech.
Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides.
A second time the signal, "Water, water; send us water!"