Collection 'A Tempest in a Teapot'
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
Booker T. Washington c. 1900.
- Date of Work
- 1900
- Credit
- Library of Congress
Booker T. Washington c. 1900.
Booker T. Washington c. 1900.
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