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 ...

He is also the first president to invite a black man – Booker T. Washington – to dine in the White House, setting off a firestorm of protest. At the time of Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration ...

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 ... Roosevelt thought African Americans to be inferior to white citizens. Although he invited Booker T. Washington, one of the leading ...

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 ...