WASHINGTON BOOKER T Theodore Roosevelt speaking at the Conve

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WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. Theodore Roosevelt speaking at the Convention of the National Negro Business League. Silver print photograph 4-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches, with the stamp of George Grantham Bain on reverse; Bain's caption in white in the negative appears across the top of the photo 'woven' through the border of the curtain above. [Boston], 1900

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Theodore Roosevelt (then vice president) addresses a meeting of the National Negro Business League in Boston in 1900. A vocal and outright supporter of Washington, Roosevelt once invited him to dine at the White House, a gesture that brought a veritable storm of ugly racist protest. A politician from South Carolina said; 'We will now have to kill a thousand niggers before they learn their place again.' Roosevelt was undeterred; Washington dined with the President, his wife and his daughter.