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Historical Sources Online: Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" [Pdf]

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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. [pdf]

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