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Posted: Sun 16:46, 04 Aug 2013 Post subject: 'See You on the Other Side!' My Family, 2 Presiden |
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name is fairly straightforward. Just a few weeks into his presidency on October 16, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited prominent African American leader Booker T. Washington to dine with him at the White House. Though many other black activists had been to the president's residence, none had ever been granted such an intimate audience with the first family. Washington waited in the Blue Room of the White House, an oval salon where presidents typically received guests. He probably passed the time admiring the blue satin drapery and 19th century French chandelier that accompanied a stunning view of the South Lawn. Roosevelt met him there and escorted him into the State Dining Room. The day following this historic event, when newspapers across the country reported that a black man had dined at the White House, many people around the nation were furious. James Vardaman,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who would go on to become the governor of Mississippi, said that the dinner had left the White House "so saturated with the odor of the
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