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Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Address”

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Typed document. — Booker T. Washington's speech for the Atlanta Exposition, September 18, 1895.

Source: Library of Congress.

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Lesson Plan

Voices of Change: Washington, Du Bois, and the Fight for Black American Progress

Explore the ideological debates between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois then lead students in a debate of their own.