"On the 19th of September, 1902, thousands of people flocked to the Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, to listen to a speech by respected author and orator Booker T Washington..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Background
02:55 - The Shiloh Baptist Church Disaster
09:29 - The Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

SOURCES:
► "More than One Hundred Negroes Crushed to Death as a Result of a Panic Following a Cry of 'Fire'", published by The Birmingham News, September 1902. Available via: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/6...
► "The Trumpet Blast" by Reverence RH Walker Jr, published by RH Walker Jr, published 1902. Available via: https://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/d...
► "Hundred Fifteen Killed" published by the Boston Evening Transcript, September 1902. Available via: https://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...
► "Dr Booker T Washington" published by Tuskegee University. Link: https://www.tuskegee.edu/discover-tu/...

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