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Teddy and Booker T.

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What’s it about?

An unlikely alliance between President Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington challenges racial injustice, revealing the power and limits of cross-racial collaboration in Jim Crow America.

You’ll learn

  • How two men from vastly different worlds forged a bond
  • The strategy of economic self-reliance over political agitation
  • The tragic limits of paternalistic progressivism
  • Why their partnership still resonates today