oct 16, 1901 - President Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House. Southerners are upset by what is said to be “an intended insult to the South. . . and as a threat of social equality. . . “ (Washington Times, 10/19/1901) An initial report was that this dinner signalled that the President would “make somewhat more vigorous mention in his message to Congress of lynch and mob law than have his predecessors.”
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oct 16, 1901
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