ðə lˈɛktʃɚ hˈaɪlaɪɾᵻd "blˈæk ɹˈiːdɚz ænd ɹˈiːdɪŋ səsˈaɪəɾiz fɹʌmðə nˈaɪntiːnθ ænd ˈɜːli twˈɛntiəθsˈɛntʃɚɹiz."
The lecture highlighted "black readers and reading societies from the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries."