"Atlanta Compromise" Speech

"Atlanta Compromise" Speech Questions and Answers

It Is At The Bottom Of Life We Must Begin

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What does accommodation mean to Booker T. Washington? How does W.E.B. DuBois respond? I know that DuBois felt that Washington was compromising the future of African Americans by agreeing to not push for higher education for young black men, civic equality and the right to vote. 

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What was the main idea of the Atlanta Compromise speech given by Booker T. Washington?

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What were Booker T. Washington's views on black civil rights?  

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What was the main point of Booker T. Washington's argument in his 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech?

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How does the parable of a ship lost at sea, in which the vessel responds "Cast down your bucket where you are", apply to Washington's own argument?

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What is the significance of the Atlanta Compromise?

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What effect does Booker T. Washington achieve by opening his "Atlanta Compromise" speech with the following appeal to logos? : "One-third of the population of the South is of the Negro race."

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Why did Booker T. Washington's opponents criticize his "Atlanta compromise"? Are their criticisms valid?

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DuBois argues that the "Atlanta Compromise" slowed rather than helped blacks' progress. Define this compromise.

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How did W.E.B. Du Bois explain the success of Booker T. Washington's approach?

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In the "Atlanta Exposition Speech," what does Booker T. Washington want his fellow African Americans to do?

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How does Booker T. Washington establish credibility in the following lines from his famous "Atlanta compromise"? "One-third of the population of the South is of the Negro race. No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success. I but convey to you, Mr. President and Directors, the sentiment of the masses of my race when I say that in no way have the value and manhood of the American Negro been more fittingly and generously recognized than by the managers of this magnificent Exposition at every stage of its progress. It is a recognition that will do more to cement the friendship of the two races than any occurrence since the dawn of our freedom."

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Regarding Booker T. Washington’s ideas for the improvement of black life, were these ideas realistic or not? How were these ideas a product of his upbringing and background?

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How was the Atlanta Compromise Speech (given by Booker T. Washington) received by the white community and the African- American community?

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Was Booker T. Washington's philosophy of "accommodation and self-help" accepted and followed by educated as well as non-educated African-Americans during that time?

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Make the argument that Booker T.Washington's words in the Atlanta Compromise did not amount to a "sellout."

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How might we understand Booker T. Washington's notions about black progress as an extension of the material and social reality confronting African Americans at that time?

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