Dinesh D'Souza - America: Imagine A World Without Her - Plot & Excerpts
They were signing a promissory note, to which every American was to fall heir.1 MARTIN LUTHER KING, I HAVE A DREAM On September 18, 1895, the black educator Booker T. Washington spoke before an all-white audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. He was the first African American invited to address this Southern group. In his speech, Washington said, “The wisest of my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all of the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing… . It is important and right that all the privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges.” Remarkably the leading black statesman in the country gave an endorsement of segregation, saying in effect that blacks should focus more on self-improvement than on equality of rights under the law.
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