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Nov 20, 2015 · He was a racist by current standards, and he was a racist by the standards of the 1910s, a period widely acknowledged by historians as the "nadir" of post–Civil War race relations in the United...
- Dylan Matthews
Brandeis vividly contrasted with Wilson's first appointment, the openly racist and personally belligerent James McReynolds, who, prior to joining the court, had served as Wilson's first attorney general.
Feb 2, 2024 · Uncancel Woodrow Wilson. Despised as a racist by today’s left and a tyrant by today’s right, the 28th president championed a set of values that our politics sorely lack. By David Frum ...
Oct 27, 2020 · His racial segregation order “came swiftly and suddenly, taking Black Americans by surprise,” the researchers wrote. Wilson imposed segregation in his Cabinet departments, and appointed Southern Democrats, who were likely in favor of segregationist policies, to lead them.
Nov 27, 2015 · The Virginia native was racist, a trait largely overshadowed by his works as Princeton’s president, as New Jersey’s governor, and, most notably, as the 28th president of the United States. As...
- Dick Lehr
Jun 30, 2020 · Wilson was undoubtedly a racist —even by the standards of his time. His administration resegregated several federal agencies; he wrote sympathetically about the Ku Klux Klan; and he described...
When Woodrow Wilson won the Presidency 1912, Washington, D.C. was home to a flourishing Black middle class with African Americans making up nearly a third of the city’s population.
