Woodrow Wilson – Racism and Controversy
by
John C Abercrombie
Woodrow Wilson born Thomas Woodrow Wilson has caused quite a controversy over his history as a racist. He was the 28th president of the United States and has many strong characteristics, but like all humans, he had positives and negatives. This article will focus on the issue of race. He is acknowledged by many for his racism and White supremacy views.
Wilson was born December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia to Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Jessie Janet Woodrow. His parents were Scots-Irish and Scottish, and the family used slave labor. He is descendant from a line of Presbyterian ministers. They often preached that Blacks were an inferior race.
When Wilson was 2, the family moved to Augusta, Georgia.
Wilson was a student of Princeton University rising to serve as president, later he was governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential and election to the 28th president of the United States of America. He was a progressive and also led the United States into world War I, established an activist foreign policy which was known as “Wilsonianism” and was the lead architect of the League of Nations, the predecessor of the United Nations. Wilson also gave us Income tax.
While president of Princeton, Wilson discouraged Blacks from even applying for admission to the University.
The most well-known part of Wilson’s racist record as President of the United States was overseeing the re-segregation of the federal government. Despite prior strict segregation, Washington, DC, and the federal government had achieved some success in racial equality that was sharply reversed under the Wilson administration.
As a result of reconstruction progress had been made towards integration and equality, however as the result of a Cabinet meeting the Postmaster General Albert Burleson pushed for segregation of the Railway Mail Service on the basis that workers shared glasses, towels and washrooms. Wilson did not reject the idea. His only comments were that he “wished the matter adjusted in a way to make the least friction”.
In a flash, all the progress towards equality of all citizens was reversed. Other agencies took Wilson’s lack of objection as authorization to segregate the work force. At this time, the Department of Treasury and the Post Office introduced a segregated work environment with partitions, separate lunchrooms, separate bathrooms for each sex, so where there had been 2 before, now 4 were required.
In cases where Blacks had earned promotion on the basis of merit and supervised White employees without incident or problem, the Blacks were fired.
W.E.B. DuBois had supported Wilson in 1912 became discussed with the segregation polices wrote of an example of the practice – “one colored clerk who could not actually be segregated because of the nature of his work had a cage built around him to separate him from his White co-workers with whom he had worked for many years. Thus, Blacks who could not be separated from their White coworkers were put into cages DuBois wrote.
Firing of Blacks was common. When Wilson took office, he personally fired 15 of 17 Black supervisors in the federal service, replacing them with White people. Keep in mind that these Blacks had done nothing wrong except for the color of their skin. The repercussions of this action involve not only the person involved but the entire family. The fully qualified employee can no longer provide the education and other necessities of the family. This impacts the family worth and is carried for generations.
The head of the Internal Revenue division in Georgia fired ALL Black employees, saying, “There are no government positions for Negroes in the South! A Negro’s place is in the corn field.” To ensure discrimination, in 1914 the federal government began requiring photographs on job applications. This practice spread to private employers for the same reason. It eliminated qualified Blacks from employment.
Monroe Trotter a newspaper editor and Harvard alumnus along with a group of Black professions met with Wilson in 1914 to protest the segregation imposed on Blacks.
Wilson informed Trotter, “Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”
Trotter then insisted “It is untenable, in view of the established fats, to maintain that the segregation is simply to avoid race friction, for the simple reason that for 50 years White and Colored clerks have been working together in peace and harmony and friendliness”
Wilson admonished him for his tone: “If this organization is to ever to have another hearing before me it must have another spokesman. Your manner offends me … your tone, with its background of passion.”
Wilson is also known for the screening of D W Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” movie in which the Ku Klux Klan is glorified at the expense of Black men who were supposed to be obsessed with White Women. This led to a surge in membership of the Klan and violence against Blacks.
Also, it has been over 100 years and we have yet to pass a federal law making it a crime to Lynch a person in the United States of America.
Below is a specific of the wrath of Wilson involving Robert Smalls a former slave who became a Civil War hero and was one of the first Blacks to serve in the United States Congress.
. As 28th president, Woodrow Wilson reinstated Jim Crow in Washington, DC, the nations capital. Wilson did not limit himself to the nation’s capital: He ordered the elimination of all senior positions in the federal government were Blacks supervised Whites. One of the federal officials Wilson arranged to have fired was a Black customs inspector living out his last years in Beaufort, South Carolina? None other than the hero Robert Smalls.
This dismal record on Civil Rights and equality is the reason for the consternation around Wilson and the demand that he be removed from his honors at Princeton. As of this time, his name is being removed because of the legacy of his racism and White supremacy that has set the nation back to the detriment of Blacks and other minority groups.
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