Biography Booker T. Washington Speech

Steffy Zambrano
Information Technology High School
Ms. Hyde
English 6
04|09|08
Booker T. Washington "Atlanta Compromise"

“To those of the white race...Cast down your bucket where you are."Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides. Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South.” Cast down your bucket to the people who need help and encouraging. Cast Down your bucket the people who have been there. “As we have proved our loyalty to you in the past, in nursing your children, watching by the sick-bed of your mothers and fathers, and often following them with tear-dimmed eyes to their graves, so in the future, in our humble way, we shall stand by you with a devotion that no foreigner can approach.” We will be there for you even if it means putting our life in danger. We are the people who protect our kids. But as long as we are separate but equal… There should be boundaries when it deals with equality. "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."

Sources:
- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1895washington-atlanta.html

Classwork; April 1st

Rubric Standards for persuasive writing:
Successful persuasion should:

1. State the issue and the writer’s position
2. Give opinions and support them with facts or reasons
3. Have a reasonable and respectful tone
4. Answer opposing views
5. Use sound logic and effect language
6. Conclude by summing up reasons or calling for action

This speech was aimed towards the soldiers who were involved in the Civil War. The audience of this speech were the soldiers of the Civil War. The reason that this speech was written was to commemorate the soldiers who fought in the Civil War. " The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract." This short 2 minute speech changed the perspective people had on the civil war.
"That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, or the people, shall not perish from this earth." Abraham Lincoln is saying
that he plans to keep "we the people" from the preamble of the constitution alive because that's what this country is about being ran by the people.




Sources:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address
• http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/gettysburg.htm