Read the text of the speech delivered in Atlanta by Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895, in which he attempted to reassure the mostly white audience that African Americans were looking for economic opportunities, not civil rights....

Find out how Booker T. Washington tried to allay the fears of white Southerners in his speech in Atlanta in September, 1895. Although hailed as a new era in which blacks would give up their civil and political rights and in return get...

Booker T. Washington was one of the most influential African Americans of his day. This site highlights his famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech, as well as a general overview of his views.

During the time of rising segregation in the late 19th century two African-American leaders offered two opposite views about how to advance civil rights for African-Americans. Read about the philosophies of those leaders. Booker T....

Article focuses on the "self-help" philosophy of Booker T. Washington and "Black Capatalism." [May 11, 2012]

Booker T. Washington was an African-American visionary. Read about his embrace of education as a way to lift up blacks in the racist South, but see how some of his views found opposition in the black community.