Atlanta Compromise

Atlanta Compromise

On September 15, 1885, in a speech in Atlanta, Georgia, black educator Booker T. Washington told his audience that black people must postpone any attempt to gain political power until they had achieved economic equality with whites. Opposed to this philosophy was W. E. B. DuBois, a co-founder of the NAACP.

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Atlanta

Geography; Capitals

Atlanta is the capital of the American State of Georgia.

Atlanta

Geography; Geography

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Atlanta

Language; Encyclopedias

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Afro-centric

Political systems; Slavery

A philosophical and theoretical perspective from an African point of view; it challenges Africa's philosophical, economical and cultural marginalization by the West.

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Political systems; Slavery

Akan people are members of an ethnic group from areas of Ghana and the Ivory Coast, in West Africa, who share a common culture and language.

Albany Movement

Political systems; Slavery

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American Anti-Slavery Society

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The two continents of north and south America and the surrounding islands.

anti-slavery

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Used to describe a person, an action, or an idea that is against slavery.

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