 | Matthew C. Whitaker - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 400 pages
...Washington, Crump supported the idea that in "purely social" matters, black and white Phoenicians could "be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." Washington would later visit Phoenix on September 22, 1911. During his stay he met with local black... | |
 | James Oliver Horton - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 210 pages
...claim, directed to the whites in his audience, that "in all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." Booker T. Washington's strategy of racial accommodation that seemed to accept segregation as an inevitable... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...raising his hand, he reassured his listeners that "in all things that are purely social, we can be separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." White southerners enthusiastically applauded Washington's speech as an endorsement of the conservatives'... | |
 | Lucius T. Outlaw - Philosophy - 2005 - 244 pages
...Atlanta Exposition in which he offered to white folks: "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."7 Washington argued that black folks should work to "lift themselves by their own bootstraps"... | |
 | David Howard-Pitney - History - 2009 - 289 pages
...life. "In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers," he summarized, "yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." Having thus implied that blacks would tolerate segregation and second-class citizenship without rancorous... | |
 | Benjamin Griffith Brawley - Social Science - 2005 - 441 pages
...proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides. ... In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all thmgs essential to mutual progress." The message that Dr. Washington thus enunciated he had already... | |
 | Donald Cunnigen, Myrtle Gonza Glascoe, Rutledge M. Dennis - Social Science - 2005 - 251 pages
...way that shall make the interests of both races one. In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in...is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all. If anywhere there are efforts tending to curtail the... | |
 | Kim W. Williams - Political Science - 2006 - 228 pages
...as the "Atlanta Com- do promise," he famously said, "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." Louis R. Harlan, ed., The Booker T. Washington Papers, vol. 3 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press,... | |
 | Grace Kyungwon Hong - 227 pages
...African American progress, reassures everyone that "in all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (Washington 1996, 100). In other words, unlike the unfettered self-determination that marks maturity... | |
 | Manning Marable - Social Science - 2006 - 302 pages
...accept the reality of racial segregation, declaring that "in all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." In return African Americans would expect opportunities for land ownership, business development, and... | |
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. 
