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September 18th

1 event recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1895
    The Rise

    Booker T. Washington delivers the Atlanta Compromise

    Booker T. Washington addresses the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, urging Black southerners to accept social separation in exchange for economic opportunity. W.E.B. Du Bois calls the speech a surrender in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk.

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