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- The exposition is dominated by a replica of the Lincoln Tomb and Monument in Springfield, Ill. Exhibits include representation from most of the Federal departments and agencies, the city, the Board of Education and the Republic of Liberia. One section features the work of Negro authors...Almost every day until closing time on Labor Day, Sept. 2, has been set aside to honor some State, organization, or Negro. (en)
- Come now my brothers and citizens of America (en)
- I ask you, America, (en)
- I who am myself also America. (en)
- I who cleared your forests (en)
- Who are you America but Me? (en)
- Who are you to be presumptuous (en)
- Who are you to deny me the right (en)
- Who are you to deny the right to speak? (en)
- Who are you to lynch the flesh of your flesh? (en)
- Who are you to say who shall live (en)
- Who are you to tell me where to eat (en)
- and hear the strange singing of me, your brother, (en)
- and know that I am you and you are me (en)
- and laid your thoroughfares. (en)
- and see the strange dancing of me, your daughter, (en)
- and the two are as one in danger and in peace, (en)
- and where to sit? (en)
- and where to sleep? (en)
- and where to stand, (en)
- and who shall die? (en)
- in freedom forever, (en)
- in plenty and in poverty, (en)
- in power, and glory and triumph. (en)
- in the Senate halls of America? (en)
- is this not signing witness in your soul? (en)
- to cast my vote in the streets of America (en)
- to tell me where to ride, (en)
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