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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

High-ranking politicians sought Washington out. Washington became an advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Booker T Washington, or Booker Taliaferro as he was named ...