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Jul 14, 2020 · Woodrow Wilson is best known as the World War I president who earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to found the League of Nations.A progressive reformer who fought against monopolies and ...
Nov 20, 2015 · Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters ...
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was the prominent American scholar who served as president of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, as governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, and as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. He was a Democrat. While Wilson's tenure is often noted for progressive achievement, his time in office was one of unprecedented regression in racial ...
Feb 2, 2024 · 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.
Nov 23, 2015 · HISTORY DEPT. What Woodrow Wilson Did For Black America . Yes, he was a racist. Does that mean we should banish him from the rolls of Progressive history?
Nov 27, 2015 · Trotter led a delegation of blacks to meet with the president on November 12, 1914, to discuss the surge of segregation in the country. Trotter, today largely forgotten, was a nationally prominent ...
Oct 27, 2020 · In this March 4, 1913 file photo, Woodrow Wilson takes the oath of office in Washington, D.C. for his first term of the presidency. (AP Photo/File)
Jun 30, 2020 · The World The Accidental Anti-Imperialist Woodrow Wilson was no less a racist in his foreign policy views than he was at home. But he inadvertently inspired opponents of colonialism around the world.
As president, Wilson confronted a new generation of African American leaders, men like William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, who had begun to challenge their more conservative ...
As the Democratic nominee in 1912, Wilson had garnered the cautious support of many among the nation’s influential and politically diverse Black leadership. His New Freedom platform promising fairness and equality caught the attention of prominent African American activists including W.E.B. Du Bois, founder of the NAACP and publisher of The Crisis magazine, and William
