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Atlanta Compromise speech
September 18, 1895
Piedmont Park, Atlanta
Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Booker T. Washington told a white audience at the Cotton States Exposition that the races could be as separate as the fingers of the hand. Du Bois initially praised the speech and spent the next decade arguing against it.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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