Booker T. Washington: The Negro’s Loyalty to the Stars and Stripes, Hear and Read the 1898 Speech

Listen to and read Booker T. Washington’s address at the Thanksgiving Peace Jubilee Exercises in Chicago, Illinois on October 16, 1898. In this speech, Mr. Washington, president of Tuskegee Institute, explains that African Americans have repeatedly demonstrated their loyalty to the United States during the toughest times. He challenges U.S. citizens to celebrate that loyalty by ending racial prejudice. This speech appears in Masterpieces of Eloquence, 1905, volume 25, edited by Mayo Hazeltine.
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Text: The text of this speech, delivered in 1898, is in the Public Domain. It appears in Masterpieces of Eloquence, 1905, edited by Mayo Hazeltine.