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Oyster Bay churches unite for Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday
On Oct. 16, 1901, famous educator Booker T. Washington dined at the White House as President Theodore Roosevelt’s personal guest.
This meeting was described by Washington as “merely an incident that had no thought or motive behind it except the convenience of the president.” But the significance of the evening was enormous because no African-American had ever before dined as a White House...
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