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History Matters: "Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are"

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Booker T. Washington gave an influential speech in Atlanta in September, 1895. In 1903 he recorded a portion of the speech, which is available on this site, the only extant recording of his voice.

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segregation, booker t. washington
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atlanta compromise, atlanta compromise speech, violence against african americans
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information