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"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
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Charlesbridge
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[2023]
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English
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"A biography of American socialite and writer Alice Roosevelt Longworth"--
"I can do one of two things, I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both."; Theodore Roosevelt
During Theodore Roosevelt's presidency - from 1901 to 1909, when Mark Twain called him the most popular man in America - his daughter Alice Roosevelt mesmerized the world with her antics and beauty. Alice was known for carrying a gun,...
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