...my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you...bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought...

...had been "patient, faithful, law-abiding, and unresentful people" whose fidelity and love had been "tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides." The prosperity of the South did not lie with immigrants (the only group that Washington seemed to be...

...disappearing."'69 In his Atlanta Exposition address, Washington famously called upon white capitalists to "cast down your bucket among these people who have,...brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth." "We shall stand by you," he added, "with a devotion that no foreigner can approach."'70 In many ways,...

...implored southern business leaders to "cast down your buckets" among the "eight million Negroes... who have, without strikes and labor wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, built your railroads and cities... and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the...

...my own race: "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you...bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought...

...my own race: "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you...bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought...

...my own race: "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you...bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought...

...been established — is the better known part of the formula. He also called on southern whites to "Cast down your bucket among these people who have,...brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth." He believed that southern whites had already shown more openness to blacks in the economic sphere where...

...had been established—is the better known part of the formula. He also called on southern whites to "Cast down your bucket among these people who have,...brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth." He believed that southern whites had already shown more openness to blacks in the economic sphere where...

...life" of slavery. Forgiveness is a sub-text: "Cast (down your buckets) among the eight million Negroes9 whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you...proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides." Of course, those were the days of the Civil War, when White homesteads were relatively unprotected...