He told the white audience that rather than relying on the immigrant population arriving at the rate of a million people a year, they should hire some of the nation's eight million blacks.
He declared that the South was where blacks were given their chance, as opposed to the North, especially in the worlds of commerce and industry. Washington began with a call to the blacks, who composed one third of the Southern population, to join the world of work. The speech was preceded by the reading of a dedicatory ode written by Frank Lebby Stanton. The speech, presented before a predominantly white audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition (the site of today's Piedmont Park) in Atlanta, Georgia, has been recognized as one of the most important and influential speeches in American history. The Atlanta Exposition Speech was an address on the topic of race relations given by African-American scholar Booker T. Washington by Frances Benjamin Johnston, c.
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