Timeline Wednesday 16 October 1901

Events on Wednesday 16 October 1901 1

• 1901 Booker T. Washington Dines at the White House First Black American invited to a presidential dinner there On 16 October 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt hosted educator Booker T. Washington for dinner at the White House, the first time a Black American had been invited to dine there as a guest. The meeting provoked fierce criticism from segregationists across the South. It remained a widely cited symbol of the era's racial tensions.