1. The Fight for Racial Equality
... explains that Washington asks African Americans to give up three things: political power, insistence on civil rights, and higher education (Dubois, 39). Indeed, in the Atlanta Compromise, Washington simply asks African Americans to focus on "industrial education, the accumulation of wealth, and the conciliation ... of the South" (Dubois, 39). Washington had many followers from both the North and the South, and he even had support from many working-class Negroes. Although Dubois ... Dubois summarizes Washington's overall theory by saying, "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts th...
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