Deborah Davis is the author of eight books, including Strapless, Party of the Century, and Guest of Honor, which won the prestigious Phillis Wheatley Award for best work of history in 2013.
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In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to have dinner at the executive mansion with the First Family. The next morning, news that the president had dined with a black man-and former slave-sent shock waves through the nation. Al... SEE MORE