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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia

"Objective" Newspapers

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Scroll down on the image for a play-by-play of the Trotter Incident. 

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"Things have reached a far point when our president is compelled to listen to the remarks of a black which an ordinary citizen, unless his veins are running with the blood of a fish, would promptly resent with a blow.”

Translation of German-American Newspaper, Westliche Post

 

"Insult Charge Denied"

“Members of the delegation which went to the White House last week with a protest against race segregation in government departments laid their case before a mass meeting of colored persons yesterday. . . .  ‘For the first time in history,’ declared Trotter, ‘a president has pronounced his administration’s policy as one of racial discrimination. Our delegation wanted him to stop departmental segregation or say where he stood. Now, at last, after two year’s silence, he has told.’”  From The Washington Post

"Race Segregation at Washington"

“The rebuke administered by President Wilson yesterday to the spokesman of a negro delegation was so thoroughly just and deserved that it will be approved by the vast majority of Americans. . . . Insistent and offensive demands for racial social equality by self-styled negro leaders, and the attempts at offensive assertion of their imagined “rights” are largely responsible for the race clashes recorded in more than a few Northern States.”

 From an unidentified newspaper

"No Jim-Crow Government"

“Mr. Wilson ought to have set his heel upon this presumptuous Jim-Crow government the moment it was established. He ought to set his heel upon it now. It is a reproach to his Administration and to the great political principles which he represents.”      From The World