[Booker T.] Washington practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races. Mr. Washington withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and
American citizens. He asks that black people give up, at least for the present, three
things-first, political power; second, insistence on civil rights; third, higher education
of Negro youth, and concentrate all their energies on industrial education, the
accumulation of wealth, and the pacifying of the South. As a result of this tender of
the palm-branch (peace offering), what has been the return? In these years there
have occurred:
1. The disfranchisement of the Negro;
2. The legal creation of a distinct status of civil inferiority for the Negro;
3. The steady withdrawal of aid from institutions for the higher training of the Negro.
What is the main idea of this excerpt?
A . Booker T. Washington was not doing enough to compromise with white Americans.
B . African Americans lost their rights while trying to pacify white Americans.
C . Booker T. Washington should establish technical colleges for white Americans.
D. African Americans needed to make more money in order to be respected by white Americans.

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