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Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt

Unknown Photographer via The Oakland Museum of California Unknown Photographer via The Oakland Museum of California.

President Theodore Roosevelt stands with hat in hand next to Booker T. Washington on a dais decorated with American flags and greenery. — Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt attending an event at Tuskegee Institute, 1905.

Source: Oakland Museum of California.

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Voices of Change: Washington, Du Bois, and the Fight for Black American Progress

Explore the ideological debates between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois then lead students in a debate of their own.