Answer:
a. separate but equal status.
Explanation:
Booker T. Washington “Atlanta Compromise Speech” was one of the most influential and important speeches in American history. He gave his speech before a white audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta Georgia.
During his speech, Washington defended that vocational education would give African American economic security, which would be more important than higher education or political offices. At the same time, he defended that African Americans kept separated from the white community with the phrase “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”. Many African American intellectuals disagreed with Washington.
