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 : with a letter of congratulation from the president of the United States.

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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 : with a letter of congratulation from the president of the United States.

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[Atlanta, Ga. : s.n., 1895]

SUMMARY
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
Imprint from: A classified catalogue of the Negro collection in the Collis P. Huntington Library, Hampton Institute, 1971, p. 286 (#4860).

Includes signed letter from Grover Cleveland and "Signed article in New York World by Hon. Clark Howell, editor Atlanta Constitution, September 19, 1895"--P. 4.

Reference: Classified cat. of the Negro coll., 4860

LC copy annotated in ink on t.p.: Tuskegee, Ala. 1895.

SUBJECTS
Afro-Americans--Employment.
Afro-Americans--Segregation.
Cotton States Exposition--(1895 :--Atlanta, Ga.).
Addresses--Georgia--Atlanta--1895.

MEDIUM
11 p. ; 19 cm.

CALL NUMBER
E449 .D16 vol. C, no. 15

PART OF
Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)

DIGITAL ID
lcrbmrp t0c15 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lcrbmrp.t0c15

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