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Race and Segregation Collection
Description
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Collection of articles and documents copied from the US National Archives and Records Administration on the topic of African Americans and racism during the years of the Wilson administration, including Jim Crow laws and workplace segregation, in several federal agencies.
PLEASE NOTE: There are numerous instances of hateful sentiments and offensive language in the documents of the collection, along with outright expressions of racism by some letter writers.
Publisher
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Format
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pdf files
Language
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English
Type
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Digital Manuscript Collection
Source
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US National Archives and Records Administration
Library of Congress
US Department of Justice
US Department of Agriculture
Creator
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Hackford, Heidi
Identifier
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MS100011
Subject
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African-Americans--Segregation
Text
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19141229
To
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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
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Letter
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437 West 35th Street,
New York, Dec. 29, 1914.
To Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President of United States,
White House, Washington, D. C.
Sir:
In the midst of Christmas, that festival in honor of Him who brought "Glad Tidings of Peace on Earth and Good Will toward Men," the National Independent Equal Rights League, in behalf of ten millions of American citizens, renews its petition to you to further consider the policy of segregation of employees of the Federal Government, of African descent, and those only because of the race prejudice of some other government employees.
We ask that this petition be received without prejudice on account of the collequy with our spokesman, who intended no offense, and in view of your statement to the rest of the delegation that their procedure was altogether agreeable. We make it in view of the public expression of American opinion on this segregation since you gave audience to our delegates.
Careful scrutiny shows that ninety-eight per cent of the newspaper and magazine editors of African extraction oppose the segregation, and that opinion among editors of non-African extraction is divided geographically, those of one-third of the country favoring, and those of two-thirds of the country opposing the segregation, with approximately three per cent in each section opposing the majority opinion of that section. Support of segregation in labor is, therefore, sectional, and opposition to it national, save for the section where a former slave condition deepened race prejudice.
In view of this expression of public opinion by the citizens of the Republic, as well as of the circumstance that no other racial element is thus treated, and of the further circumstance that this racial element have made indisputably manifest their feeling of humiliation and of being greatly injured, we appeal to you at this religious festival when magistrates have by time-honored custom removed the chains, to order these segregation barriers removed for ever-loyal American citizens, and the policy of segregation in governmental labor discontinued.
We ask, Mr. President, an official response to this our earnest Christmas petition.
Rev. Byron Gunner, President,
Reverdy C. Ransom, National Organiser
437 West 35th Street,
New York City, N.Y.
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Date
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1914 December 29
Creator
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Gunner, Byron
Title
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Byron Gunner to Woodrow Wilson
Identifier
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CS92
Subject
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Trotter, William Monroe, 1872-1934
African-Americans--segregation
Source
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Library of Congress <br />Wilson Papers, Series 4, 152A Reel 231, Manuscript Division
Contributor
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Althea Cupo
Maria Matlock
Language
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English
Format
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pdf file
Type
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Text
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Digital copy acquired from federal archives by previous WWPL Archivist, Heidi Hackford.
Publisher
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Christianity
National Independent Equal Rights League
segregation
Trotter Incident
Wilson and race