Northern colored intellectuals, traducers, and detractors of Washington who were jealous and scornful of Booker T's power, impact, and legacy, have successfully slandered his name and his electrifying 1895 "Atlanta Exposition" speech by interpolating "compromise" where exposition should be. The true "compromise" was in 1877, when both political parties bargained away the Freedmen's newly-won legal rights and civil protections to brigands and bushwhackers--opponents of black rights in the North and the South--in exchange for the White House to Republicans and Rutherford B. Hayes. The Democrats and Samuel J. Tilden got oppressive power over the blacks, who were then potent politically in the South. Read for yourself!
Sunday, February 1, 2015
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S DEFAMED LEGACY FROM HIS "ATLANTA EXPOSITION SPEECH" OF 1895
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/
Northern colored intellectuals, traducers, and detractors of Washington who were jealous and scornful of Booker T's power, impact, and legacy, have successfully slandered his name and his electrifying 1895 "Atlanta Exposition" speech by interpolating "compromise" where exposition should be. The true "compromise" was in 1877, when both political parties bargained away the Freedmen's newly-won legal rights and civil protections to brigands and bushwhackers--opponents of black rights in the North and the South--in exchange for the White House to Republicans and Rutherford B. Hayes. The Democrats and Samuel J. Tilden got oppressive power over the blacks, who were then potent politically in the South. Read for yourself!
Northern colored intellectuals, traducers, and detractors of Washington who were jealous and scornful of Booker T's power, impact, and legacy, have successfully slandered his name and his electrifying 1895 "Atlanta Exposition" speech by interpolating "compromise" where exposition should be. The true "compromise" was in 1877, when both political parties bargained away the Freedmen's newly-won legal rights and civil protections to brigands and bushwhackers--opponents of black rights in the North and the South--in exchange for the White House to Republicans and Rutherford B. Hayes. The Democrats and Samuel J. Tilden got oppressive power over the blacks, who were then potent politically in the South. Read for yourself!