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Vorobyev D. N. African-American Civil Rights Protection Activity of Booker T. Washington (The Late XIX – Early XX Centuries). Izvestiya of Saratov University. History. International Relations, 2020, vol. 20, iss. 2, pp. 215-220. DOI: 10.18500/1819-4907-2020-20-2-215-220
African-American Civil Rights Protection Activity of Booker T. Washington (The Late XIX – Early XX Centuries)
The article is devoted to the analysis of the activities of the AfricanAmerican leader of the XIX–XX centuries – Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) aimed to protect the civil and political rights of the Black American population. A well-known public person, B. T. Washington promoted his accommodation policy based on the interracial compromise. Its goal was the temporary renunciation by the African-Americans of the political and social equality in the Southern states in order to achieve the material progress. Publicly declaring the need to adapt to the prevailing social order in the South, B. T. Washington secretly sought to weaken the racists’ political positions with the support of the federal government and thereby protect the suffrage of the Black population. However, the Southern authorities regarded B. T. Washington’s accommodation policy as a de facto recognition of the defeat of the African Americans in the struggle for equality proceeding to a widespread deprivation of Black people’s voting rights with a tacit consent of the federal government. Unable to stop the further spread of racist legislation in the South, B. T. Washington continued to officially adhere to the accommodation policy that led towards growing discontent of his activity in the Black community and strengthening of the African-American Protest Movement positions.
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