 ... of yours, interlacing our industrial, commercial, civil, and religious life with yours in a way that shall make the interests of both races one. In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all...  Modern Eloquence - Page 1138edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Raymond R. Sommerville - 2004 - 262 pages
..."racial etiquette" they had practiced for over a quarter of a century. When Washington pronounced that "[i]n all things that are purely social we can be...one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress,"17 he had aptly described the "racial etiquette" that already existed between the CME Church... | |
 | Andrew Michael Manis - 2004 - 462 pages
...the South's opinion-makers with his most famous utterance signaling blacks' acceptance of Jim Crow: "In all things that are purely social we can be as...one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."3 Unuttered in this salute to Washington was white Macon's assumption that social separation... | |
 | Raymond Wolters - 2002 - 588 pages
...the fingers stretched wide apart, and said to the white people of the South on behalf of his race: 'In all things that are purely social we can be as...fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to social progress.'"39 At the close of the speech, the white governor of Georgia, Rufus B. Bullock, rushed... | |
 | Todd Vogel - 2004 - 212 pages
...his Atlanta Exposition speech, in which he said that blacks and whites in all things "social . . . can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." In a New York World account, we understand the crowd's southern leanings when we learn that, as Washington... | |
 | Jeffrey A. Tucker - 2004 - 366 pages
...development over social justice and political equality: "In all things that are purely social we can be separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."90 The congruence of Washington's statement to Zwon's opening metaphor suggests that although... | |
 | Laura Desfor Edles, Scott Appelrouth - 2005 - 420 pages
...word spoken at Atlanta; "In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers. and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." This "Atlanta Compromise" is by all odds the most notable thing in Mr. Washington's career. The South... | |
 | Ronald H. Bayor - 2004 - 1032 pages
...word spoken at Atlanta: "In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, and he other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-conscious This "Atlanta Compromise" is by all odds the most notable thing in Mr. Washington's career. The oo... | |
 | Richard Wormser - 2004 - 238 pages
...South on behalf of his race, 'In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the finger yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress,' a great sound wave resounded from the walls and the whole audience was on its feet in a delirium of... | |
 | H. Loring White - 2005 - 435 pages
...equality, he offered to suspend demands for social equality until his people reached material equality: "In all things that are purely social we can be as...hand in all things essential to mutual progress." 8 There it was! A promise to be docile, to respectfully lower the eyes before the white man boss. And... | |
 | James Oliver Horton - 2005 - 210 pages
...with this accommodating stance and Washington's claim, directed to the whites in his audience, that "in all things that are purely social we can be as...hand in all things essential to mutual progress." Booker T. Washington's strategy of racial accommodation that seemed to accept segregation as an inevitable... | |
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