When Black Meant Republican
By @ChrisALadd
It’s easy to forget now, but just a few generations ago African Americans overwhelmingly identified themselves as Republicans.
#BlackLivesMatter
#blackconservatives #MetGala
#tcot
By @ChrisALadd
It’s easy to forget now, but just a few generations ago African Americans overwhelmingly identified themselves as Republicans.
#BlackLivesMatter
#blackconservatives #MetGala
#tcot
In the fall of 1895 Atlanta put on one in a series of “International Expositions” designed to highlight its progress in recovering from the war. Racial tensions had been growing since southerners, at the end of Reconstruction, began instituting Jim Crow laws.
The organizers of the Exposition invited prominent black leader Booker T. Washington to give a keynote address. The position he took in that speech was a calculated gamble.
He aimed to improve blacks’ social position by aggressively pursuing economic progress while de-emphasizing the battle for civil equality. The approach he outlined, The Atlanta Compromise, became the dominant black political ethos for generations.
NOTE: This is the only known recording of Booker T. Washington's voice.
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