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CHAPTER FOURTEEN - The Atlanta Exposition Address

Summary

The exposition opened with a short address by Governor Bullock and then Booker was introduced. Uppermost in his mind was the feeling that he needed to say something that would cement the friendship of the races and bring about cooperation between them. He recalls now how when he looked out on the audience he saw thousands of eyes staring intently at him. And so he began . . .

His first important point was that one third of the population of the South was Negro and that no one could disregard this element of the population. Furthermore, he ais he was impressed by how the managers of the Exposition had recognized this fact with the building devoted to the Negro’s industrial progress. His second important point came from an anecdote he used as a metaphor: a ship lost at sea for many days sighted a friendly vessel and begged for water. It was told, “Cast down your buckets where you are.” The ship cried out again, because they wouldn’t drink sea water, but again the command from the other vessel was to “cast down your buckets where you are.” The captain finally heeded the command and gratefully discovered that he was at the mouth of the Amazon and the water was safe to drink. Booker then used this story to emphasize that the Negro, in order to cultivate the friendship of the South, should cast down their buckets where they were to make friends in their own surroundings. They should cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in domestic service and in the professions. He then told the white audience that they, too, should cast down their buckets to the people who had been there for generations tilling their.........

Notes

This chapter shows the growing influence Booker T. Washington began to wield. He was sp widely respected after the Atlanta address that he obtained critical acclaim for his race as well. He used his quiet sense of righteousness to speak to racial problems in the South and he.......

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