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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the centennial year of Booker T. Washington's death, ... His famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895 cautioned blacks against extremism and encouraged them to prove their worth by becoming ...

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 ...

In the centennial year of Booker T. Washington's death, ... His famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895 cautioned blacks against extremism and encouraged them to prove their worth by becoming ...

In the centennial year of Booker T. Washington's death, ... His famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895 cautioned blacks against extremism and encouraged them to prove their worth by becoming ...