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Rare Booker T. Washington Cotton Exposition Speech September 18, 1895 CD. New.

$ 50.16

Availability: 100 in stock

Description

Rare CD recording of landmark speech by former slave Booker T. Washington at the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, September 18, 1895 - the first time a Black man was invited to speak at this all-white Southern audience.
The applause was described as thunderous, the scene extraordinary.