14-498: Kreutzer may refer to: People [ edit ] Andrew L. Kreutzer (1863-1905), member of the Wisconsin State Senate Conradin Kreutzer (1780-1849), German composer and conductor Daniel Kreutzer (born 1979), German professional ice hockey forward Frank Kreutzer , former Major League Baseball pitcher. Idar Kreutzer (born 1962),
28-644: A Norwegian CEO Joseph Kreutzer (1790-1840), German violinist, composer, and conductor Léon Charles François Kreutzer (1817—1868), French music critic, music historian, and composer Leonid Kreutzer (1884-1953), German classical pianist. Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831), French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer Samuel Kreutzer (1894-1971), Australian rugby player Volker Kreutzer , West German sprint canoer William Kreutzer, Jr. (born 1969), American soldier infamous for assassinating his commander and opening fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Bragg Other uses [ edit ] Kreutzer,
42-403: A hand. The title " Atlanta Compromise Speech " was given to the speech by W. E. B. Du Bois , who believed it was insufficiently committed to the pursuit of social and political equality for African Americans. Although the speech was not recorded at its initial presentation in 1895, Washington recorded a portion of the speech during a trip to New York in 1908. This recording has been included in
56-543: A synonym for Kreuzer , a silver coin and unit of currency in Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland Kreutzer Air Coach , an American-built light trimotor transport aircraft of the late 1920s Kreutzer Etudes , a set of works for solo violin composed by Rodolphe Kreutzer around 1796 See also [ edit ] Kreutz (disambiguation) Kreutzer Sonata (disambiguation) Kreuz (disambiguation) Kreuzer (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
70-695: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Andrew L. Kreutzer Andrew Lawrence Kreutzer (August 30, 1862 – March 27, 1944) was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate . Kreutzer was born in Germantown, Wisconsin in 1862. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School and began practicing law. In 1895, he was appointed by Governor William H. Upham to attend
84-646: The Atlanta Exposition Speech . From 1897 to 1898, he was Judge Advocate General of the Wisconsin Army National Guard , achieving the rank of colonel . He died in 1944. Kreutzer was a member of the Senate from 1899 to 1905. Previously, he served two terms as District Attorney of Marathon County, Wisconsin . He was a Republican . Kreutzer declared his candidacy as Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin in 1924, but
98-620: The United States National Recording Registry . Washington used this phrase several times in the speech. The phrase was originally a call for a doomed ship to "cast down your bucket" to the ocean, upon which the sailors discovered fresh water to drink from the nearby Amazon River mouth. For Washington's audience, the phrase had different meanings for whites and blacks. For whites, Washington seemed to be challenging their common misperceptions of black labor. The North had been experiencing labor troubles in
112-542: The early 1890s ( Homestead Strike , Pullman Strike , etc.) and Washington sought to capitalize on these issues by offering Southern black labor as an alternative, especially since his Tuskegee Institute was in the business of training such workers. For blacks, however, the "bucket motif" represented a call to personal uplift and diligence, as the South needed them to rebuild following the Civil War. This phrase appeared at
126-496: The end of the speech's fifth paragraph. It is commonly referred to as the "Hand simile." Certain historians, like Louis Harlan , saw this simile as Washington's personal embrace of racial segregation . The entire simile reads as follows: In all things purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. Ultimately, many Southern whites ( Porter King , William Yates Atkinson , etc.) praised Washington for including such
140-673: The most important and influential speeches in American history. The speech was preceded by the reading of a dedicatory ode written by Frank Lebby Stanton . Washington began with a call to the African-American population, who composed one third of the Southern United States , to join the world of work. He declared that the South was where black people were given their chance, as opposed to the North , especially in
154-460: The progress of the South was inherently tied to the treatment of black people and protection of their liberties. He addressed the inequality between commercial legality and social acceptance, proclaiming that "The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house." Washington also promoted segregation by claiming that blacks and whites could exist as separate fingers of
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182-432: The worlds of commerce and industry. He told the white audience that rather than relying on the immigrant population arriving at the rate of a million people a year, they should hire some of the nation's eight million African-American population. He praised black peoples’ loyalty, fidelity and love in service to the white population, but warned that they could be a great burden on society if oppression continued, stating that
196-576: Was forced by illness to withdraw from the race. Atlanta Exposition Speech The Atlanta Exposition Speech was an address on the topic of race relations given by African-American scholar Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895. The speech, presented before a predominantly white audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition (the site of today's Piedmont Park ) in Atlanta , Georgia , has been recognized as one of
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