“Theodore Rex” By E. Morris

Race relations in the US were traditionally tensed and the dinner of the US President Theodore Roosevelt with the leader of African American community Booker Washington on October 16 1901 raised quite controversial response in the public (Morris 11). On the one hand, proponents of integration of African Americans in the mainstream society supported the dinner. On the other hand, the majority of the public, especially in the South rejected and criticized the President because many Americans stood on the segregation ground.

In fact, the meeting intended to show the attempt of Roosevelt to lead the nation to the integration of African Americans that mean their inclusion to the extent that they would become one nation with white Americans. Jim Crow and other proponents of segregation stood on the different ground because segregation meant the separation of white and black Americans and their separate life and development, in terms of education, healthcare, work, etc.

At the same time, both proponents of integration and segregation admitted Social Darwinism, which implied that only the fittest survives. Hence, they believed that whatever strategy is applied only the most capable and fittest will survive. Roosevelt was close to Neo-Lamarkist viewpoint, which admitted the unity of human race, without differences between blacks and whites.

However, the US society was apparently unprepared for the integration, which Roosevelt and Washington stood for. Instead, views of Crow and his proponents apparently prevailed as just a few years earlier before the dinner of Roosevelt and Washington lynching practices have peaked in 1895. This is why Americans rather supported segregation than integration, although integration could be more effective because it would eliminate barriers between different racial groups and they would eventually arrive to the united nation without racial boundaries.

Thus, the dinner between Roosevelt and Washington took over the time and preceded the preparedness of Americans for integration. Instead, Americans were still bound to segregation. Hence, Roosevelt’s and Washington’s idea of integration did not gain much support in the US society of that time, but this idea laid the foundation for the further elimination of racial inequality in the US.

Works Cited:

Morris, E. Theodore Rex. New York: Random House, 2002.

The terms offer and acceptance. (2016, May 17). Retrieved from

[Accessed: March 28, 2024]

"The terms offer and acceptance." freeessays.club, 17 May 2016.

[Accessed: March 28, 2024]

freeessays.club (2016) The terms offer and acceptance [Online].
Available at:

[Accessed: March 28, 2024]

"The terms offer and acceptance." freeessays.club, 17 May 2016

[Accessed: March 28, 2024]

"The terms offer and acceptance." freeessays.club, 17 May 2016

[Accessed: March 28, 2024]

"The terms offer and acceptance." freeessays.club, 17 May 2016

[Accessed: March 28, 2024]

"The terms offer and acceptance." freeessays.club, 17 May 2016

[Accessed: March 28, 2024]
close
Haven't found the right essay?
Get an expert to write you the one you need!
print

Professional writers and researchers

quotes

Sources and citation are provided

clock

3 hour delivery

person