1895 ATLANTA COTTON STATES AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION

Possible Starting Places

  Cotton States And International Exposition -- Wikipedia:  An entry from the on-line encyclopedia.

Overviews

  "The Atlanta Cotton States And International Exposition -- September 18, 1895," Today In Georgia History.

  Harvey K. Newman, "Cotton Exposition In Atlanta": An entry in the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Primary Sources

  Official Guide To The Cotton States And International Exposition.  Atlanta: Franklin And Publishing, 1895.  Another copy of this volume is available HERE.

"The Cotton States And International Exposition To Be Held In Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 18 To Dec. 13, 1895," New York Times, June 8, 1895.

Race Relations And The Exposition

  "Atlanta Compromise Speech," New Georgia Encyclopedia:

Booker T. Washington, "Speech To The Atlanta Cotton States And International Exposition," October 18, 1895, Say It Plain -- A Century Of Great African-American Speeches:

Race And The Atlanta Cotton States Exposition Of 1895, Theda Perdue, University of Georgia Press.

  Charles Sicignano, "Book Review: Race And The Atlanta Cotton States Exposition Of 1895," Southeastern Librarian, 59 (Spring 2011).

  The Negro Building Remembrance Competition:

History In The News

Annabella Jean-Laurent, "Flashback: The 1895 Cotton States Exposition And The Negro Building," Atlanta Magazine, February 27, 2014.

Audio And Video Sources

  "Stories Of Atlanta -- Speaking From The Heart," PBS, February 9, 2016.  [1 min.]

"Theda Perdue: Race And The Atlanta Cotton States Exposition," GBH Forum Network, March 13, 2014.  [57 mins]

Photographs

Fred L. Howe 1895 Cotton States And International Exposition Photographs, Atlanta History Center Album, Digital Resources of the Kenan Research Center.

Miscellaneous

  "King Cotton March," John Philip Sousa.