<P> After the turn of the 20th century, other black leaders, most notably W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter--(a group Du Bois would call The Talented Tenth), took issue with the compromise, instead believing that African - Americans should engage in a struggle for civil rights . W.E.B. Du Bois coined the term "Atlanta Compromise" to denote the agreement . The term "accommodationism" is also used to denote the essence of the Atlanta compromise . </P> <P> After Washington's death in 1915, supporters of the Atlanta compromise gradually shifted their support to civil rights activism, until the Civil Rights Movement commenced in the 1950s . </P> <P> Du Bois believed that the Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a consequence of the Atlanta Compromise . </P>

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