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Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
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WIP - come back to later - delves into the actions they took to empower African Americans against racial oppression in the early 1900s, and the criticism they faced from contemporaries as a result.
Notes:
- Roosevelt enrolled at Columbia Law School but quickly lost interest in becoming a lawyer. He dropped out after one year to pursue his passion for writing and political engagement. In 1881, he published his first book, a well-received history called The Naval War of 1812.
- The same year Roosevelt published his acclaimed first book, the 25-year-old Washington received an invitation to spearhead a new teachers college for African Americans in Tuskegee, Alabama.
- Both trailblazers experienced early, crushing losses of loved ones. Their relentless drive to build enduring institutions stands as a testament to transforming private pain into public good.
- Washington - Militants pushed him to condemn lynchings and inequality more forcefully while white politicians demanded he stay in his lane uplifting Negro morality. Washington denounced injustice through his writings while adopting a conciliatory posture milder than his predecessor, Frederick Douglass.
- Roosevelt sought Washington’s perspective on the worsening crisis of racial violence and disenfranchisement throttling Reconstruction’s promise across the South. Washington laid the dire situation bare as only he could from decades of work in the trenches.
- Roosevelt shrugged off the controversy, stating it was merely natural for two prominent Americans to become acquainted. But the ruckus likely gave both pause on the immense social taboos and resentment still surrounding Black equality.
- Behind closed doors, Washington frequently visited the White House to update Roosevelt on racial affairs and strategize discreetly.
- Despite criticisms for not forcing change faster, their patient courage in laying social and political groundwork is remembered as progress against the embedded racism of their age.
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Notes:
- Roosevelt enrolled at Columbia Law School but quickly lost interest in becoming a lawyer. He dropped out after one year to pursue his passion for writing and political engagement. In 1881, he published his first book, a well-received history called The Naval War of 1812.
- The same year Roosevelt published his acclaimed first book, the 25-year-old Washington received an invitation to spearhead a new teachers college for African Americans in Tuskegee, Alabama.
- Both trailblazers experienced early, crushing losses of loved ones. Their relentless drive to build enduring institutions stands as a testament to transforming private pain into public good.
- Washington - Militants pushed him to condemn lynchings and inequality more forcefully while white politicians demanded he stay in his lane uplifting Negro morality. Washington denounced injustice through his writings while adopting a conciliatory posture milder than his predecessor, Frederick Douglass.
- Roosevelt sought Washington’s perspective on the worsening crisis of racial violence and disenfranchisement throttling Reconstruction’s promise across the South. Washington laid the dire situation bare as only he could from decades of work in the trenches.
- Roosevelt shrugged off the controversy, stating it was merely natural for two prominent Americans to become acquainted. But the ruckus likely gave both pause on the immense social taboos and resentment still surrounding Black equality.
- Behind closed doors, Washington frequently visited the White House to update Roosevelt on racial affairs and strategize discreetly.
- Despite criticisms for not forcing change faster, their patient courage in laying social and political groundwork is remembered as progress against the embedded racism of their age.
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