Date(s): September 15, 1895 Location: MACON, Alabama Tag(s): Speeches, Principal, Cotton States, Black Americans, Exposition, Educational Tour, Tuskegee Normal and Indus, Atlanta Exposition, African-Americans, Booker T. Washington The time had come to deliver his speech. As principal of an all-Black school he realized the importance of conveying his message carefully at the opening of “the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition in Tuskegee, Alabama”. Standing in front of a large gathering the principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute understood his words had to be effective. He looked into a sea of anxious white...