Booker T Washington Atlanta Address

Booker T. Washington speech “To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbour, I would say: “Cast down your bucket where you are”—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded. Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, …

…by giving them a chance to achieve where his race was never able to so before, in the work force. He was criticized for being a racial accommodationist, but one thing that no one can argue is that with the Tuskegee Institute he was able to help hundreds of thousands of his race, better themselves and better the future. He was by far a great man and should be looked at with hero’s eyes.