ATLANTA COMPROMISE


Meaning of ATLANTA COMPROMISE in English

Classic statement on race relations by Booker T. Washington , made in a speech at the Atlanta Exposition (1895).

He asserted that vocational education, which gave blacks a chance for economic security, was more valuable than social equality or political office. Many African Americans feared that such a limited goal would doom them to indefinite subservience to whites; that fear led to the Niagara Movement and later to the founding of the NAACP .

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia.      Краткая энциклопедия Британика.