Nani Quotes
I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.
This famous address was called his “Atlanta Compromise.” Discrimination against Blacks throughout the South and some of the North was rampant with most Blacks unable to make a decent living or partake of social amenities even if they had earned some money. There was pressure from Blacks for social and economic equality. Washington signaled in this address that Black leadership of the day would forgo their efforts to obtain social equality—symbolized by attending the opera which was for all white audiences—if the society would make gradual and steady progress at eliminating the economic equality. Other Black leaders saw this as a sell-out. See Du Bois {625802}.
In American History wars have been one of the major factors in breaking down cultural gender barriers and sexism. This was true even of the Civil War. At the time a married woman had no legal say in how family finances were utilized. All her property was the husband’s to manage as he saw fit. The war forced families to rethink and rearrange the roles of women. The reference to “Rothschild” was to the great financial family of men who were regarded as the best financiers in the world.
