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Show BUT FOLLOWED JEFFERSON. Booker Washington Not the First Negro Ne-gro Entertained at White House. (New York Evening Post.i The flurry over the action of President Roosevelt in asking Booker T. Washing-' Washing-' ton to dine with him at the White House has brought out the fact that Thomas Jefferson entertained a colored man at dinner in the White House, and went so far as to Invite him to visit Monti-cello. Monti-cello. This colored man was Benjamin Banneker, who was remarkable for hia attainments in mathematics, especially in astronomy, besides being a linguist of note. |