Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
"Atlanta Exposition Address" (1895)
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Homework Questions:
33:
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What was the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition?
35-36:
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Explain the parable of the ships and the bucket.
36:
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Explain: "We shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify
and glorify common labour and put brains and skill into the common occupations
of life" (36).
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Explain: "Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our
opportunities" (36).
37:
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Who are "the most patient, faithful, law-abiding, and unresentful people
that the world has seen"(37)? Explain.
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Explain the hand-finger analogy.
38:
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Explain: "The agitation of questions of social equality is the
extremest folly" (38).
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Explain: "The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now
is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house"
(38).
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What, ultimately, is Washington's main argument?
