The Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition
Suggested Readings
Louis R. Harlan, Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915(New
York: Oxford University Press, 1983).
Bruce Harvey and Lynn Watson-Powers, “The Eyes of the World Are Upon Us”: A Look
at the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895,” Atlanta History 39 (fall/winter
1995): 5-11.
Theda Perdue, Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895(Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2010).
K. Stephen Prince, “A Rebel Yell for Yankee Doodle: Selling the New South at the 1881
Atlanta International Cotton Exposition,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 92 (fall 2008): 340-
71.
David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (New York:
Henry Holt, 1993).
Robert J. Norrell, Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington (Cambridge,
Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009).
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery(New York: Doubleday, Page, 1901).
Joel Williamson, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984).