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Race and Segregation Collection
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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.
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
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pdf files
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English
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Digital Manuscript Collection
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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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To the President of the United States,
His Excellency, Pres. Woodrow Wilson,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. President:-
It is the mind of multitudes of good Americans that the legal department of the general government should not stand aside and see scores of American citizens legally murdered and enslaved in Helena, Ark., simply because those Americans happen to be also Negroes.
It is well known that colored people riot only in defending themselves against white people in this country. This, of course, is not necessarily due to any superior virtues in colored people. But people who are hopelessly in the minority, numerically, - and more than in a minority materially,- such people do not start riots, and we all know it.
Many Negroes were murdered in the Elaine and Helena, Arkansas, riots, and ONLY Negroes are being convicted, - by juries composed of all white people,- friends and relatives of the white rioters, if not the actual rioters themselves, being on these juries.
This is outrageous. The President of the United States must be interested in a matter like this.
If Arkansas be right in killing these Negroes for attempting to defend themselves, what earthly harm could come to Arkansas by haveing the Federal Government to investigate the matter and find out and justify the righteousness of Arkansas?
Congress should be requested to investigate this case.
Very truly yours,
Wm. Pickens.
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19191126
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William Pickens to Woodrow Wilson
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Pickens, William, 1881-1954.
Identifier
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TI00162a
Description
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Writing to ask Congress to investigate the race riots in Helena, Arkansas.
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National Archives and Records Administration 230/06/41 file #158260 box #1284 NARA ID # 12
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Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Subject
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African-Americans--segregation
Date
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1919 November 26
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pdf file
Language
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English
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Text
Arkansas race riots
lynching
race riots
Wilson and race