“Similarly, in Charleston, his approach implicitly accepted segregation while focusing on the “equal” component of the separate-but-equal doctrine. Tailoring his message to white listeners, Washington assured his audience that Black Americans did not desire to share restaurant tables or railway cars (or bedrooms or marriages) with white people; they simply wanted equal accommodations in their separate spaces. “Let me say as emphatically as I am able, that judging by my observation and experience, nowhere in this country is the negro race seeking to obtrude itself upon the white race,” Washington said. “I think you will find that the more the negro is educated, the more he gets to understand himself and the world, the more he finds satisfaction in the company of his own people, the less he desires to force himself in any place that he is not wanted.”