... community. In a way, he was almost able to shed, or bleach, inwardly the remnants that defined him as an African American and become that ideal just "American" that Theodore Roosevelt shouts about in his manifesto. On the other hand, he received heavy criticism his fellow race, including W. E. B. Du Bois, who claimed he "had not spoken out strongly enough for ... , can't find a way to escape what Du Bois would call the "two-ness" or "double consciousness" peopleof color have to face in American society or what Roosevelt essentially calls unassimilation or obstructions of the Old World. W...

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... the National League, and Association of American Colleges, and the League of Women voters" (Mary 2). Bethune also worked under a number of other presidents, for example, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore Roosevelt. She worked with these gentlemen on child welfare, housing, employment, education, and other issues that African Americans were faced with. Mary was assigned to be the director of the Division ... ...

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