Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality

By Brian Kilmeade

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

In Teddy and Booker T. (2023), broadcaster Brian Kilmeade tells the story of the friendship between Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington, two men from very different backgrounds whose paths crossed over the question of racial equality. Kilmeade follows Washington from slavery to founding Tuskegee Institute and Roosevelt from privilege to the presidency. The story centres on their 1901 dinner at the White House, the public outrage it provoked across the South and the alliance that continued afterward.

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• Tony Robbins: “This gripping narrative tells of the challenges faced by Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington as they helped lay the groundwork for true equality in America.”