The most prominent African-American spokesman during the 1890s was Booker T. Washington, leader of Alabamas Tuskegee Institute. Washington outlined a response to these policies in an 1895 speech in Atlanta, Georgia that became known as the Atlanta Compromise. The basic thrust of his approach was that Southern African-Americans should not agitate for political rights (such as the right to vote and equal treatment under the law) as long as they were provided economic opportunities and basic rights of due process. Washington also politically dominated the National Afro-American Council, the first nationwide African-American civil rights organization
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