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Students to Hear Rare Recording; Booker T. Washington Speech Distributed

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870827
Author:Will Hitchcock

When high school students in Washington County return to classes this fall, their history lessons of the American civil rights movement will include a rare recording of a speech made by Booker T. Washington in 1895.

The record, made in 1906 by Washington especially for his son, E. Davidson Washington, contains an excerpt of a speech made at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition. At the time, Washington urged blacks to concentrate on economic advancement through cooperation with white industrialists rather than drastic social and political reform.

Sharpsburg resident William Allen discovered ...

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