"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. The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." — Booker T. Washington, Atlanta, 1895
Washington spoke one year before which Supreme Court ruling?
- A
U.S. v. Cruikshank limiting Klan prosecutions
- B
Civil Rights Cases striking the 1875 act
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Plessy v. Ferguson upholding 'separate but equal'
- D
Williams v. Mississippi approving literacy tests
Explanation
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) constitutionalized segregation, the legal landscape that framed Washington's strategy.