Atlanta compromise

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The Atlanta Compromise (eng. Atlanta Compromise) of 1895 is an informal agreement between leaders of the black minority and politicians of the South.

background

The compromise was announced at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition. Booker T. Washington , President of the Tuskegee Institute negotiated it from the black side. The Atlantakompromiss renounced access to university education and demanded legal certainty, but not legal equality. He thus found broader approval in the southern states and their white upper class. The role of broad vocational training was emphasized. The Tuskegee Institute , founded for this purpose, enabled craft training courses for blacks. The National Negro Business League campaigned for the professional interests of black craftsmen. At the year of Booker Washington's death (1915), the Tuskegee Institute consisted of 123 buildings on 930 acres and owned machines valued at over a million dollars.

Questioning

At the beginning of the 20th century, WEB Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter , among others, questioned the compromise. Du Bois called for increased participation of blacks in university education under the motto Talented Tenth and started a movement for equality and civil rights. After the death of Booker Washington in 1915, the two currents increasingly merged.

literature

  • Croce, Paul (2001), Accommodation versus Struggle , in WEB Du Bois: An Encyclopedia , Gerald Horne and Mary Young (Eds.), Greenwood, ISBN 978-0-313-29665-9 .
  • Harlan, Louis R. (1986) Booker T. Washington: the wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 , Oxford University Press, pp. 71-120.
  • Harlan, Louis R. (2006), A Black Leader in the Age of Jim Crow , in The racial politics of Booker T. Washington , Donald Cunnigen, Rutledge M. Dennis, Myrtle Gonza Glascoe (Eds.), Emerald Group Publishing, p 26.
  • Lewis, David Levering, (2009), WEB Du Bois: A Biography , Henry Holt and Co., 1994 revised edition. ISBN 978-0-8050-8769-7 .
  • Logan, Rayford Whittingham, The Betrayal of the Negro, from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson , Da Capo Press, 1997, pp. 275-313.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Text of Atlanta Compromise Speech
  2. ^ Atlanta Compromise Speech . New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 8, 2007.