Black Justice League: Remove Woodrow Wilson's name from Princeton

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35. Wilson's racism is particularly obnoxious in several ways:

Wilson's first presidential campaign reached out to black America at a time when white supremacy was sweeping the country, and Republicans were continuing to back away from the promises of equality. This seemed especially significant at the time, because in the years following the civil war, the Democrats had often been closely associated with white supremacy. When Wilson took office, the Federal civil service was one of the few employment arenas which really did not discriminate much based on race, because hiring decisions were based on civil service exams. That Wilson then set out to segregate the civil service, and to drive black America from government employment, therefore represented not only a real betrayal of campaign promises to the black community but also a gigantic step back from the gains that had been won in the second half of nineteenth century