S. Why did Washington's opponents criticize his "Atlanta Compromise"? Are their criticisms valid?

Atlanta Compromise is a short reference to a speech that Booker T. Washington delivered at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 18, 1895, in which he asserted, to a largely white audience, that black people would be better served by pursuing a vocational education than by seeking a liberal arts education or political office.

At this speech, he also validated segregation, arguing that, in all things social, blacks and whites could be "as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." He encouraged Southern blacks to "cast down [their] buckets" in the South, with the hopes that they would remain in the region and that white industrialists would not favor white immigrants for jobs. Predictably, black people who had formerly worked on plantations were not welcomed into industrial work in the South, which prompted the first migration to Northern states in the early twentieth century.

W.E.B. DuBois was Washington's primary opponent, seeing his accommodationis

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