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We make no excuses for Woodrow Wilson’s racist beliefs. Our organization stands against racism, hatred and bigotry in all forms and we are committed to being a resource for honest, transparent and inclusive history. We learn from our past. The beliefs and actions of past presidents are particularly fertile areas of study by historians and the ...
Nov 24, 2015 · OVER the last week, a growing number of students at Princeton have demanded that the university confront the racist legacy of Woodrow Wilson, who served as its president before becoming New Jersey ...
Jun 27, 2020 · As you will see from the board’s statement, the trustees concluded that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must stand firmly against racism in all its forms.
Jul 22, 2020 · The New Republic, "Woodrow Wilson Was Even More Racist Than You Thought," July 6, 2020. MSNBC, "Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist," April 11, 2015.
A quote from Woodrow Wilson's History of the American People is included in the film's intertitles. Dixon had been a fellow graduate student in history with Wilson at Johns Hopkins University and, in 1913, dedicated his historical novel about Lincoln, The Southerner , to "our first Southern-born president since Lincoln, my friend and ...
Jun 27, 2020 · Princeton University says it is to remove the name of former US President Woodrow Wilson from a building on its campus because of his racist beliefs and policies. The move follows a wave of ...
Oct 27, 2020 · Before the election of President Woodrow Wilson, Black Americans worked at all levels of the federal government. But when Wilson assumed office in 1913, he mandated that the federal workforce be segregated by race—leading to the reduction of Black civil service workers’ income, increasing the significant income gap between Black and white ...
