Address of Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, delivered at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition, at Atlanta, Ga., September 18, 1895
Subtitle: with a letter of congratulation from the president of the United States.
Contributors: Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress); Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1895
Place of publication: [Atlanta, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: African Americans -- Employment; African Americans -- Segregation
Description: Washington says that business offers the African American great opportunity in the South and that African Americans must start at the bottom of the economic scale before moving up to so-called higher occupations. He also calls upon white southerners to work with African Americans for the common good of both races.
Notes: "Signed article in New York World by Hon. Clark Howell, editor Atlanta constitution, September 19, 1895": p. 4.
LC copy annotated in ink on t.p.: Tuskegee, Ala. 1895.