Read short story and answer questions

You should read “Up from Slavery” (Chapter XIV) by Booker T. Washington found in your textbook, or you may listen to it here: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/92/up-from-slavery/1632/… (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.).  

Why did this speech of September 18, 1895, at the Atlanta Exposition, become a historical touchstone that separates black activism from black moderation?

Why did he use the parable of the parched sailors searching for water who are told,” Cast down your bucket where you are”?

What was the likelihood that African-Americans could make friends in “every manly way” with their Southern neighbors?

Why did he ask that they be given a “man’s chance in a commercial world”?

What have been the positive and negative effects of his grand compromise, that socially the races should be separate as the fingers of one hand, yet united in the hand “In all things essential to mutual progress”?  

QUOTATIONS: Explain what is meant here, and explain the significance of each.

“The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.”

“My experience… convince [s] me that the thing to do, when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing, and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.”