Washington from his base at the Tuskegee Institute founded the National Negro Business League where he sought to further African American business opportunities. As the vile affects of Jim Crow took hold in the South and a surge of lynching’s occurred Washington laid out what he believed was the path forward for African Americans in a speech known as the “Atlanta compromise.” In his speech, Washington espoused the belief that progress for African Americans would come through education and entrepreneurship, rather than demanding social equality. “The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. ” Washington’s acceptance of Jim Crow and his subsequent urging of African Americans to simply accept the severe oppressions and day-to-day struggles of life in racist America served as the point of contention between he and Du
Washington from his base at the Tuskegee Institute founded the National Negro Business League where he sought to further African American business opportunities. As the vile affects of Jim Crow took hold in the South and a surge of lynching’s occurred Washington laid out what he believed was the path forward for African Americans in a speech known as the “Atlanta compromise.” In his speech, Washington espoused the belief that progress for African Americans would come through education and entrepreneurship, rather than demanding social equality. “The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. ” Washington’s acceptance of Jim Crow and his subsequent urging of African Americans to simply accept the severe oppressions and day-to-day struggles of life in racist America served as the point of contention between he and Du