Booker T. Washington was one of the most powerful African Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Born a slave in Hale's Ford, Virginia, the son of a white man who did not acknowledge him ...

Booker T. Washington, Courtesy ... McKinley dies eight days later. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt, at 42, becomes the youngest U.S. president. Anthony F. Luchich drills at Beaumont, Texas ...

Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City to glass importer and leading philanthropist ... Roosevelt thought African Americans to be inferior to white citizens. Although he invited Booker T.

Bedou career took off after his photo of the May eclipse gained recognition. By 1903, he had become Booker T. Washington’s ...

A bronze statue of former US President Theodore Roosevelt is to be removed ... black man - a former slave and presidential adviser Booker T Washington - to dinner at the White House in 1901.