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 ...

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 ...

On June 17, 1914, Mr. Washington made a visit to Batavia to speak at the First Presbyterian Church, invited by the ...

H. W. Brands is the author of "TR: The Last Romantic" and the just-released "Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt." He teaches history at ...

Booker T. Washington was born a slave in April 1856 on the 207-acre farm of James Burroughs. Booker T. Washington National Monument is located on the former Burroughs Plantation. In 1850, James ...