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However, it should be noted that Wilson, held repeated private viewings of Birth of a Nation at the White House. He also fought integration while president of Princeton University, and as president of the United States ordered the re-segregation of the federal government.

[boop]

I can not believe what a racist Woodrow Wilson(D) was. Everything I've read about him is disgraceful. I understand it was 1917, but come on! Compare him to Teddy Roosevelt. Take him off the 100,000 dollar bill!

[norge]

Woodrow Wilson, a democrat, was a racist and supportive of the Klan.

[No Truce With Kings]

Wilson was the President that segregated the United States Navy. From its inception in 1794 through the Civil War the Navy enlisted men regardless of their color, and bunked people together irrespective of race. That eroded some after the Civil War, especially after the Navy again began accepting officers from Southern states, and the Jim Crow barriers went up in the South, but it was not until Wilson became President and appointed Josephus Daniels -- a white southerner, who was a cracker in spirit -- as Secretary of the Navy that the Navy instituted rules limiting blacks to roles as stewards and food handlers. The Navy forcibly retired the remaining black petty officers and chiefs at that time.

Note that this did not happen during a succession of Republican Presidents. It occurred during the term of the first Democrat to be elected President since Grover Cleveland, the first (and only 19th-Century) post-emancipation President.