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To: WayneS

Among other things a profoundly racist individual. Segregated the military.


34 posted on 02/21/2018 3:15:06 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Yes he did.

Our military was on its way to becoming an integrated entity and Woodrow Wilson put a stop to it. He also re-segregated the civilian federal work force, closing off certain jobs and positions to blacks just as they were beginning to make in-roads towards being treated equally.

Things were by no means rosy and wonderful at that time for blacks, but Mr. Wilson not only did nothing to move things forward, he actively moved us several steps backwards.

I have long considered Woodrow Wilson the most racist post-Civil War president of the United States - although LBJ gave him a run for his money as did Barack Obama most recently.


35 posted on 02/21/2018 5:47:24 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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