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For African Americans there were no exhibits at all about them.
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They were even excluded from the construction crews
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that built all the halls.
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There was something called a Southern Restaurant,
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which according to the guidebook featured, quote,
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"A band of old-time plantation darkies performing songs."
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There was a bale of Benjamin Montgomery's cotton,
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from Davis Bend, Mississippi,
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which won an agricultural medal at the exposition,
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beating out cotton from all over the South
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and from Brazil and from Egypt and the Fiji Islands
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and other places,