and the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, which opened Dec. 16 that year, brought more than 1 million visitors to the city to celebrate 100 years of the cotton industry.

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When Booker T. Washington delivered his famous, “Atlanta Compromise,” speech inside Gilbert’s Auditorium on opening day of the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition, it was the ...

during which Black laundresses led a strike for better wages in the weeks leading up to the International Cotton Exposition.