"To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land, or who
underestimate the importance of preservating friendly relations with the southern white man who
is their next door neighbor, I would say: "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down,
making friends in every manly way of the people of all races, by whom you are surrounded.
To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue
and habits for the prosperity of the South... I would repeat...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 fireside. Cast down your bucket among these people...
-Booker T. Washington, 1895
In this speech at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition, Washington was talking to both Black and white
southerners. What was he telling them to do in order to be successful in the New South?