Posted on 12/19/2015 9:10:08 PM PST by TBP
While Wilson has a complicated legacy that includes genuine accomplishments, his record in the District is unambiguously negative. In a diverse area with a rich black history, we should not have the name of an unabashed white supremacist atop one of the District’s few public high schools.
When Wilson arrived in 1913, he found that the District offered black people more opportunities than anywhere else in the South. It may not have been “the colored man’s paradise,†as some contemporaries claimed, but the District had the nation’s largest black community — about 95,000 people, nearly 30 percent of the city’s population — and boasted a rich array of black-run schools, businesses, churches, newspapers and civic organizations. Schools were segregated, but many public institutions were not. Black people of all classes could freely read in the majestic Carnegie public library, ride the city’s streetcars, dine in federal cafeterias and stroll along the Mall without restriction. Black Washingtonians even could challenge white authorities in court and win.
Soon after his inauguration, Wilson replaced all but two of his predecessor’s black appointees with white men, and his administrative appointees isolated black workers in “Negro corners,†forced them to use “colored†toilets and even erected a few “Whites Only†signs in federal buildings.
Throughout Wilson’s two terms in office, white administrators refused to hire or appoint qualified black applicants, wrote negative personnel reports on black employees and denied promotions to longtime workers. These efforts had a crippling effect on the community, narrowing one of the few avenues for economic advancement and job security available to educated black people.
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Democrat and progressive.
Wilson has always irked me. Despicable human being.
If we change names of High Schools, lets get rid of some other parts of Wilson’s toxic, progressive legacy - namely, the Federal Reserve, the 16th amendment (income tax) and the 17th amendment (direct election of Senators)
Democrats are sad this pathetic man’s legacy included extolling the KKK, but otherwise, they are all on board with his agenda.
If you go back and review the build-up to the 1912 election...Wilson should have been running strictly against Taft, and Taft should have easily won. Because of the action by Taft against one of Teddy Roosevelt’s executive orders (during the last year of Teddy’s administration)...Roosevelt would return from this grand safari and launch into a claim to retake the presidency.
It is one of the biggest political blunders of American history and worth reading. Taft would have easily won the 2nd term and the US would have likely entered WW I by the end of 1915.
Thanks. :) I’ll check into it.
He also didn’t like women voting and he had them jailed for protesting.
Grimke lived and worked in the Boston area most of his career. Beginning in the 1880s, he began to get active in politics and speaking out about the rise of white supremacy following the end of Reconstruction in the South. He was appointed as editor of the Hub, a Republican newspaper that tried to attract black readers. Grimke supported equal rights for blacks, both in the paper and in public lectures, which were popular in the nineteenth century. He became increasingly active in politics, and was chosen for the Republican Party's state convention in 1884.
Just like in current times, ANYONE who claims themselves as progressive and uses phrases like African-American, Indian-American, Arab-American, instead of just American, has some sort of bigoted belief.
Obama is probably the most race-conscious president since Wilson, in outlook and policies. In my opinion.
Yup.
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