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The text of Booker T. Washington’s 1895 speech in Atlanta. From street food in Thailand to a bakery in a Syrian refugee camp to how one scientist uses state of the art pollen analysis to track the ...
On Sept. 18, 1895, Booker T. Washington delivered his famous “Atlanta Compromise” speech, also known as the “Atlanta Exposition Speech” at the opening of Cotton States and International ...
On September 18, 1895, Booker T. Washington gave his famous address to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition. Washington declared before this regional business gathering his ...
On this day in 1895, Booker T. Washington, speaking at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, became the first prominent African-American to address a racially ...
From the time of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta speech in 1895 there was a sharp rising opposition to his program. This was a time of growing struggle against the burning plagues of lynching ...
When Booker T. Washington delivered his famous, “Atlanta Compromise,” speech inside Gilbert’s Auditorium on opening day of the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition, it was the ...
Educator Booker T. Washington, head of the Tuskegee Institute, was born this week in 1856. One of his most famous speeches was the Atlanta Exposition Address, which he gave on September 18th, 1895.
Black History Month: No. 12 Booker T. Washington and the Atlanta Compromise. By 1895, Booker T. Washington, who was born a slave, had risen to become the most powerful, and in some regards ...
A portion of the speech is played and author Kenneth Hamilton comments on its significance.
In 1895, Washington delivered a speech that would be known as the Atlanta Compromise: a short address to allay white fears of a black uprising in a postbellum South.