Booker T. Washington delivered his famous “Atlanta Compromise” speech, advocating for gradual economic and social advancements in race relations in the Reconstruction-era South. Other figures like W.

Introduction: African-American History, 1865-1925 -- The lion and the lamb: Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington -- Roads not taken: Booker T. Washington as a Race Leader -- As separate as the ...

Marcus Garvey is an interesting and divisive figure in civil rights history. Influenced by the writings of Booker T Washington, he pushed back against the philosophy of the NAACP and W.E.B. Du Bois.