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Photograph of Booker T. Washington. In this head-and-shoulders view, he wears a suit and faces forward.African American educator and leader Booker T. Washington delivered what is widely regarded as one of the most significant speeches in American history, the "Atlanta Compromise" speech, in 1895. It is considered the definitive statement of what Washington termed the "accommodationist" strategy of black response to southern racial tensions.
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  1. African American Authors
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African American Educators
  4. African American Men
  5. African American Orators
  6. African American Teachers
  7. African Americans
  8. Authors, American
  9. Civil Rights
  10. Civil Rights Workers
  11. Educators
  12. Men
  13. Orators
  14. Teachers
  15. United States
  16. Washington, Booker T., 1856 1915

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