African American Reactions
In the black community one reaction included the belief that African Americans should adjust to how their rights were being limited and develop economic skills before working to equal rights. On the other hand many blacks pushed for immediate, full equality. These different reactions revealed how blacks opinions of the case and its ruling varied.
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"In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."
Booker T. Washington, 1895, Atlanta Compromise Speech
A major leader for the development of black economic skills was Booker T. Washington. He gave speeches and pushed blacks to earn a place in the white man's world.
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“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more
convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some
future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater
usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and
tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”
W.E.B. Du Bois, Three African-American Classics: up from Slavery, the Souls of
Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
W.E.B. Du Bois was a major advocate for immediate equality. He led the Niagara Movement which eventually grew into the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.