Raymond Smock, a historian who wrote a book about Washington's career in 2009, has argued that Washington was willing to appease white southerners’ demands for racial inequality in exchange for their support for his plans. what passages from this speech could be used to support smock’s conclusion?

Even as immigrants were being incorporated into the American population, the United States also struggled to deal with unresolved racial tensions especially in the South. On September 22, 1906 race riots erupted in Atlanta, Georgia. Twenty-seven people were killed and the city’s black-owned business district was damaged by mobs. From the 1890s through the 1920s, tens of thousands of young African Americans migrated to northern cities in search of jobs, escaping the tenant farming and sharecropping system that had entangled their parents in debt while Jim Crow laws maintained a system of strict racial segregation. The separate but equal doctrine that justified racial segregation had been upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1896 Plessey v. Ferguson case.

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“To those of my race who want to move to a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say: ‘Cast down your bucket where you are’ — cast it down in making friends of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded. Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, commerce, domestic service, and the professions. Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper if we learn to dignify and glorify common labor…” lines 1-8

Explanation: i used this quote because he was encouraging the role of African Americans still working in agriculture, commerce, domestic service, etc. (which is what many slaves did before they were given freedom).