Wnet: Thirteen: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: The Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895)

Find out how Booker T. Washington tried to allay the fears of white Southerners in his speech in Atlanta in September, 1895. Although hailed as a new era in which blacks would give up their civil and political rights and in return get justice and economic rights, Washington's speech and its ideas did not combat racism as he had hoped.