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 ...

Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City to glass importer ... Roosevelt thought African Americans to be inferior to white citizens. Although he invited Booker T. Washington, one of the leading ...

When President McKinley was assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt took office in 1901 ... was sworn in as President, he invited Booker T. Washington, a black civil rights activist, to dine at ...

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.