Discrimination over race is nothing new for America. David Pietrusza describes the "Jim Crow" situation of the 1900’s in his book 1920 The Year of Six Presidents. As an illustration of the strong bias against blacks in the United States, he points out that in October of 1901 Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House for a private dinner. The white South was enraged. The Memphis Scimitar fumed that the President had committed "the most damnable outrage ever perpetrated by any citizen of the United States when he invited a nigger to dine with him in the White House." Roosevelt never invited Washington to the White House again. Not only were blacks prevented from voting by illegal tactics, they were being lynched by mobs. Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 blacks were lynched nationwide. Fifty two of the 1920’s sixty lynching’s happened in the South, mostly Texas, Georgia, Alabama and Florida. Mobs grabbed some forty two victims from jails where law enforcement did nothing to interfere. One victim was lynched for trying to vote and three were burned to death. Segregation was the norm both in the North as well as the South and including the armed services. Not a record for white Americans to be proud of.