HISTORY REVEALED: Teddy Roosevelt and Booker T Washington and Racism 1901

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In 1901 President Teddy Roosevelt invited Black educator and author Booker T Washington to have dinner with him and his family in the White House. The violent Southern reaction shocked TR and showed how far segregation and oppression there had eroded the promise of freedom from the Civil War.

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