d. This period of white redemption was filled with lynching due to white fear that blacks would soon take over economically, culturally and politically. Lynching and sharecropping were methods of social control often used-alternatives to slavery-that sought to oppress the black masses through terror, violence and repression.
             It was during this time (1870-WWI) that a young black leader named Booker T. Washington sought to employ the first strategy of economic accommodation to white oppression. In speeches such as the Atlanta Compromise he advised blacks to trust the paternalism of the southern whites and accept the fact of white supremacy. He stressed the mutual interdependence of blacks and whites in the South, but said they were to remain socially separate. Washington believed that by doing these things, blacks would eventually earn their rights to become citizens. Although Washington encouraged blacks to obtain a useful education and work hard, his philosophy was extraordinarily conciliatory to southern whites who liked the idea of blacks remaining uninvolved politically and socially, and it would consign the Negro to an inferior status as long as the black community listened to Washington. To make sure that change did not happen, Washington received generous donations from white philanthropists wishing to ensure that Washington become the prestigious leader and spokesman for the black community who would help these ideals of inferiority permeate throughout the minds of all blacks.
             Although economic reform (at the hand of white oppression) did help to uplift blacks in that they now had funded, accredited learning institutions and relatively peaceful existences, Washington's strategy of economic reform failed because it's prospects for radical change were limited. Booker T. Washington also faced a lot of black opposition that pinned him as unwilling to push for the advancement of blacks. One man extremely opposed to Was...