That speech, given at the Cotton States and International Exposition, is known as this man's "Atlanta Compromise.
In one speech, this man claimed, "The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factoryis worth infinitely more than to spend a dollar in an opera house." In that same speech, he said, "In all things purely social we can be as separate as the finger yet one as the hand," and told his audience "Cast down your bucket where you are." That speech, given at the Cotton States and International Exposition, is known as this man's "Atlanta Compromise." This alumnus of the Hampton Institute and founder of the National Negro Business League also advised presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft and founded the Tuskegee Institute. For 10 points, name this man whose ghostwritten autobiography was Up From Slavery and who was criticized by W. E. B. Du Bois for prioritizing black economic development over civil rights.
In one speech, this man claimed, "The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factoryis worth infinitely more than to spend a dollar in an opera house."
Booker Taliaferro Washington