Booker T. Washington Speech: Gentlemen Of The Board Of Directors And Citizens

In Booker T Washington Speech - Atlanta Compromise he was talking to the President and Gentlemen of the Board of Directors and Citizens. Mr. Washington is talking to the President, Board of Directors and citizens because he wants to repair the economic and social relationship between the whites and blacks. He gave his speech because he wanted encourage blacks to make to try becoming mechanics, agriculture and more. He wanted to encourage them to do stuff that did not seem like the normal labor jobs that whites were used to blacks working.
He wants to let the whites know that blacks can do just about the same jobs as them. Booker T Washington was significant during his era because he was one of African Americans that completed school and became