S1 E9: Theodore Roosevelt
The Past, the Promise, the Presidency
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Theodore Roosevelt and Race and His Rhetoric
Leroy Dorsey is an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He says Roosevelt was a product of his time and accepted that non-whites were inferior to whites. But he didn't use the federal government to expand rights for non-Whites, but did try to defend certain rights they had. The P&H system which was basically another form of slavery would have kept people enslaved again through thissystem. So he's a sort of sort of mix of contradictions in regards to race.
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