On November 2, 1910, Dr. Booker Taliaferro Washington spoke here in Washington at Brown's Opera House which was located on the southeast corner of Main and Market Streets.
Speaking to a standing-room-only capacity crowd of about 1,000 people, one third of whom were white, Dr. Washington delivered a powerful, thought-provoking speech. The Nov. 3 edition of the Washington Daily News called his speech...