2. Explain how Washington depicts the relationship between whites and blacks in the South.

3. What does Washington think about protest as a strategy for achieving social equality?

4. Explain your reaction to Washington's statement:“.., you will find that they [blacks] will buy your surplus land, make blossom the waste places in your fields, and run your factories. While doing this, you can be sure... that you and your families will be surrounded by the most patient, faithful, law-abiding, and unresentful people that the world has seen. As we have proved our loyalty to you in the past, in nursing your children, watching the sick-bed of your mothers and fathers... so in the future, in our humble way, we shall stand by you.

In the spring of 1895 Washington traveled to Washington, D.C., with a delegation of mostly white Georgians to solicit support from Congress for an exposition on social and economic advances in the South. Washington pointed out to a congressional committee that since emancipation, Blacks and whites had made advancements in race relations that should be highlighted in an exposition

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