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The Racist Legacy Of Woodrow Wilson By Dick Lehr

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The opinionated article “The Racist Legacy of Woodrow Wilson,” written by Dick Lehr, reveals insight into Wilson's shadowed discriminatory views when an incident occurred at the White House between Wilson and a black civil-rights leader. Wilson’s segregation in federal offices went unnoticed until William Trotter, a civil-rights activist, tried relentlessly to gain the president’s support for blacks. Trotter was a political supporter of Wilson and was convinced he would seek equality among all Americans if elected. Wilson deceived Trotter and other civil-rights leaders by using persuasive techniques that influenced them to vote for Wilson in the presidential election. Throughout Wilson’s presidency segregation worsened, so Trotter and other …show more content…

Why would U.S. citizens vote for Wilson knowing he kept clans such as the Ku Klux Klan? It was not a surprise for people if their presidents were racist because several of America’s presidents have been racist in the past. This flaw in America’s history severely affects civil rights leaders and blacks like William Trotter. When voting for a president in the nineteenth century, people should have taken into consideration a political figure’s racial views before voting for them. However, Wilson was not blatant about his views, so it was easy for African Americans to vote for him expecting a change to be made. Wilson believed segregation to be a benefit for blacks and said, if they (blacks) “... regard it (segregation) rather as a benefit, they will regard it the same” (“Missed Manners: Wilson Lectures a Black Leader”). There is no benefit in the segregation of blacks, and it is shocking to hear that Wilson regarded it as a benefit for blacks. Nonetheless, he grew up in Georgia during the Civil War while his parents actively supported the Confederacy, so it was no surprise when I found out that he had negative racial views. I believe his reasoning behind his idealism about segregation is ridiculous and is just another excuse that justifies his actions. It was easy for Wilson to slowly worsen segregation because most of his cabinet members were white southerners who immediately started to segregate the federal offices by race (Little). These actions by the cabinet members were obstructive to Trotter and other civil rights leaders' overall goal of terminating the segregation of

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