Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute by Bailey Budd;

Author:Bailey, Budd;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing LLC

Invitation to the White House

It took him less than a month to do something no president had ever done: formally invite a man of color to the White House to dine. Roosevelt is said to have told a friend that he wasn’t sure whether he should invite a black man to the president’s official residence. Then Roosevelt felt such shame over those feelings that he immediately wrote a letter to Washington. “When are you coming north? I must see you as soon as possible. I want to talk over the question of future appointments exactly on the lines of our last conversation together,” he wrote.

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