AP Lit: Booker T. Washington Speech at the Atlanta Exposition

For those of you not in class on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, we did two things. We read a speech by Booker T. Washington that is integral to a fuller understanding of the first few chapters of the novel. We are also reading two drafts of a poem by Langston Hughes, comparing the versions, and analyzing Hughes' tone towards Booker T. The actual speech appears in the post below. I'll be posting a specific assignment, as well as the copies of the drafts, from Langston Hughes' poem tomorrow.

Here's the assignment: