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How Teddy Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington’s dinner changed history
28.10.2023 - 14:07 / nypost.com
In his new book, “Teddy and Booker T: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality,” bestselling author Brian Kilmeade writes of how Theodore Roosevelt invited intellectual and former slave Book T. Washington to dinner at the White House at the very beginning of his presidency. Roosevelt sought Washington’s counsel as he struggled to steer the country — and especially the South — forward in the wake of Jim Crow laws and racial violence.
Here, an excerpt: On the evening of Thursday, Oct. 16, 1901, Booker T. Washington and Theodore Roosevelt dined in the Executive Mansion with the first family.
High spirits prevailed; however, in this circle of Roosevelt’s family affection and friendship, Washington was a stranger. When dinner finished, Roosevelt and Washington retired to discuss the South and government appointees at length, and Washington left to catch a night train to New York.As the train rumbled north, Booker T. Washington was acutely aware that, for the first time in the nation’s history, a black man – and one who had been formerly enslaved – had broken bread at the nation’s first table.
While such thoughts must have elevated Washington’s spirits, his anxiety about the risks of this moment surely weighed them down.Perhaps his mind went back some weeks before, to the day he received a letter from the brand new president that set this historic event in motion.On Sept. 14, 1901, following the assassination of President William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt was sworn in as the 26th president of the United States, and vast new responsibilities had fallen into his lap. Roosevelt recognized he now possessed the power to engineer change in America, but he also felt a new obligation to be prudent: With the eyes of the
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