Roosevelt and The Negro.

Teddy Roosevelt and Black America


Kelly Miller, on the faculty of Howard University, wrote numerous monographs on issues of race and black America. He was also the author of The American Race Problem and Kelly Miller’s History of the World War for Human Rights… [spine title:] [The] Negro Soldier in Our War. Miller’s Roosevelt and the Negro gives a profile of Theodore Roosevelt, before and during presidency and examines his positions upon black America. Roosevelt’s famous dinner with Booker T. Washington and stance against lynching is then contrasted with Roosevelt’s perceived political abandonment of black America. The Brownsville Affair in Texas, in 1906, is consequently discussed over four pages; when townspeople accused stationed Buffalo Soldiers of killing a white bartender and wounding a police officer, Roosevelt dishonorably discharged 167 soldiers in retribution for what he called a “conspiracy of silence,” those unwilling to advance those culpable for the crimes. Miller: “The whole Negro race was dazed. Theodore Roosevelt had for the second time struck at the Negro soldier, the pride and idol of the race.” (p16) Miller also chastises Roosevelt for, in the context of lynching, imputing that black Americans had an inherent lecherous tendency. (p17) In conclusion, Miller declares that while Roosevelt was the most popular man in America, he destroyed all such admiration from black American for his decisions in the Brownsville Affair. (p21)


Description: Roosevelt and The Negro.

Washington, D.C. Hayworth Publishing House, (1907). 22, [2 (blank)]pp. First Edition. 8vo, gray printed wrappers. Soft vertical crease to wraps and contents; almost all pages with small and pale stains to top margins, else very good.

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