A portion of the speech is played and author Kenneth Hamilton comments on its significance.

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 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 ...

By 1895, Booker T. Washington, who was born a slave, had risen to become the most powerful, and in some regards, respected black man in the country. Only 14 years earlier, in 1881, he established ...