What was the atlanta exposition?

Question

why was booker t washington and george washington carver important in it

Answer 1

It was an attempt by Atlanta businessmen and politicians to become an national industrial center. Attention was focus on Atlanta access to numerous railroads, agricultural advancements, and industrial resources in the area.

Answer 2

Maddawg is correct....

The exposition was designed to promote the region to the world and showcase products and new technologies as well as to encourage trade with Latin America.

The offical name of the event was the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition of September 18, 1895.

It was held at the current Piedmont Park in Atlanta. Nearly 800,000 visitors attended the event. After the exposition, the grounds were purchased by the City of Atlanta and became Piedmont Park.

The Exposition featured exhibits from several states including various innovations in agriculture and technology. That is how Geroge Washington Carver was involved, with his agri-research.

Booker T. Washington gave a famous speech there, it was an address on the topic of race relations. This speech is sometimes known as the "Atlanta Compromise",

Washington began with a call to the blacks, who comprised one third of the Southern population, to join the world of work. 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. He told the white audience that rather than rely 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 praised blacks' loyalty, fidelity and love in service to the white population, but warned that they could be a great burden on society if oppression continued, stating outright that the progress of the South was inherently tied to the treatment of blacks and protection of their liberties.

Answer 3

It was when a group of vegetarians from Georgia all got diarrhea at the same time after eating in an Atlanta restaraunt.

It was AKA the Atlanta salad shooters incident.