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https://presidentwilson.org/files/original/fe05c27aede284232627ef20c4163f11.pdf
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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
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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM
B 327 NY 241 CNT 2 COMMAS 1/70
SD NEW YORK NY 420P 14
MR WOODROW WILSON
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON DC
THE ANTIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLODD PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF 12,000,000 NEGROES OF THE UNITED STATES RESPECTFULLY URGES THE DANGER TO AMERICA AND ITS IDEALS OF THE CONDITIONS PREVAILING IN PHILLIPS COUNTRY ARKANSAS ELEVEN NEROES HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO ELECTROCUTION IN PHLLIPS COUNTY SIX OF THEM HAVING BEEN CONVICTED IN SEVEN MINUTES ACCORDING TO PRESS REPORTS BY A JURY F WHICH NO COLORED MAN WAS A MEMBER FIFTY FOUR NEGROES HAVE ACCORDING TO THE PRESS BEEN SENTENCED TO TERMS OF FROM ONE TO TWENTY ONE YEARS IN STATE PRISON NO WORD HAS COME OF PROCEEDINGS AGAINST WHITEMEN ALTHOUGH UPWARDS OF TWENTY FIVE NEGROES WERE KILLED IN THE DISTRUBANCES A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FO THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE VISITED THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN WASHINGTON ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1 AND PLACED IN THE HANDS OF MR G F RUCH OF THAT DEPARTMET INFORMATION GIVING GROUNDS FOR BELIEVE 1 THAT NOT ONLY HAD NO "MASSACRE OF WHITES" BEEN PLANNED BY. NEGROES OF PHILLIPS COUNTY BUT 2 - THAT THE NEGROES IN PHILLIPS AND ADJACENT COUNTIES AHVE BEEN MERCILESSLY EXPLOITED UNDER A SYSTEM VIRTUALLY OF PEONAGE AND 3 - THAT THE NEGROES HAD ORGANIZED NOT TO "MASSACRE WHITES" BUT TO OBTAIN LEGAL REDRESS BY PEACEFUL AND LAWFUL MEANS IF OUR INFORMATION IS CORRECT LEGALISED WHOLESALE MURDER IS BEING COMMITTED IN PHILLIPS COUNTY MAY WE THROUGH YOU REQUEST AN IMMEDIATE FEDEAL INVESTIGATION
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON.
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19191114
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Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.
Identifier
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TI00160
Date
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1919 November 14
Description
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Writing in regards to the execution of African Americans in Arkansas race riots.
Source
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National Archives and Records Administration 230/06/41 file #158260 box #1284 NARA ID #7
Publisher
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Subject
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African-Americans--segregation
Title
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James Weldon Johnson to Woodrow Wilson
Format
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pdf file
Language
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English
Type
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Text
Arkansas race riots
lynching
NAACP
race riots
Wilson and race