Industrial Age · North America · Politics
1895
Atlanta Compromise
September 18, 1895
At the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, Booker T. Washington urged Black southerners to accept segregation in exchange for economic opportunity: "In all things purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand." White audiences loved it. Du Bois spent the next decade arguing it sold African Americans short.
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Before and after in North America
- Before: May 11, 1894: Pullman Strike
- After: May 18, 1896: Plessy v. Ferguson
Before and after in Politics
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.