At least a bit of good news at the end of the article— Princeton is turning on Wilson, though on grounds that he was a racist. Not an admirable trait in Wilson, but I can think of many better reasons to loathe the man.
Madam C. J. Walker worked as a washerwoman for twenty years. She then started her own business of developing and selling hair-care products for black women. She became rich and famous. She was part of a group that went to Washington, D. C. to meet with President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson’s secretary got them an appointment to see the president.
When they arrived on schedule at the White House, they were informed Wilson was signing a bill about feeding farm animals, and he would not see them. He never did.
The man was an a—hole of a human being.