Joan Crawford Quotes
I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!
Newquist, Roy. Conversations with Joan Crawford. Citadel Press, 1980.
This famous address was called his “Atlanta Compromise.” Discrimination against Blacks throughout the South and some of the North was rampant with most Blacks unable to make a decent living or partake of social amenities even if they had earned some money. There was pressure from Blacks for social and economic equality. Washington signaled in this address that Black leadership of the day would forgo their efforts to obtain social equality—symbolized by attending the opera which was for all white audiences—if the society would make gradual and steady progress at eliminating the economic equality. Other Black leaders saw this as a sell-out. See Du Bois {625802}.
Joan Crawford was an American film and television actress who began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting as a chorus girl on Broadway. Crawford then signed a motion picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925; her career spanned six decades, multiple studios, and controversies.
