<P> On 16 October 1901, shortly after moving into the White House, Theodore Roosevelt invited his adviser, the African American spokesman Booker T. Washington, to dine with him and his family, and provoked an outpouring of condemnation from southern politicians and press . This reaction affected subsequent White House practice, and no other African American was invited to dinner for almost thirty years . </P> <P> Roosevelt, while governor of New York, had frequently had black guests to dinner and sometimes invited them to sleep over . </P>

Which african american leader was invited as a dinner guest to the white house in 1901