In his new book, "Teddy and Booker T: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality," Brian Kilmeade writes of how Theodore Roosevelt invited intellectual and former slave Book T. Washington to dinner at the White House at the very beginning of his presidency.
On Dec. 5, 1900, an advertisement appeared on page 5 of the Nashville American advertising "building stone" for sale near the Corner of Eighth Avenue and Church Street.