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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
Contributor
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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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Date
19141127
To
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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
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Letter
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American Colonization Association.
M.M. Madden, Supreme President,
Home Office, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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To His Excellency,
Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States.
Sir:
Please permit me through the medium of expression to utter my disapproval of the manner in which Mr. W. M. Trotter addressed you as President of the United States. I feel under many obligations to ask you apoligies for the manner in which Mr. Trotter addressed you. I hope you will credit this as an error of the head instead of the heart and not credit the same to the race as a whole and as an individual error of a member of the race.
The better thinking part of our race does not think like Mr. Trotter. Also kindly thanking you for your good will toward the race and your advice to them with reference to a complete independence of the white people, may I kindly call your attention to the fact that we have a movement on to that effect and the same is incorporated under the laws of Oklahoma, I being the Supreme President of said movement.
I have been addressing large congregations of persons for about eleven months getting the endorsement of my people. I have men in every State. I hope to get the endorsement of my people to represent before Congress with reference to colonizing them on American soil by national legislation; they to be colonized on some thinly populated part of the United States or some other place that the government will prepare for them. Negro property throughout the Union to be appraised and paid for by the government and to become the property of the government is the plan. Then, the Negroes are to be moved to this new Liberia where they would reserve a right to make their own laws by a treaty with the United States and at the same time take an oath of allegience to protect the constitutional laws of the United States.
The object for getting the endorsement of the Negroes of America is to do this without abridging the Constitution of the United States or repealing any part of the same but simply stooping to the wishes of the people for good government.
Hoping you accept this as a letter of apology to the manner in which Mr. Trotter has addressed you and also your endorsement of the movement that I have outlined, feeling your endorsement would add much to our success, I beg to remain,
Yours for the country's good,
M.M. Madden
Supreme President.
Oklahoma City, Okla.
M.M.M./SB.
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Date
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1914 November 27
Creator
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Madden, M. M.
Title
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MM Madden to Woodrow Wilson
Identifier
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CS81
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
Subject
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African-Americans--segregation
Description
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Apologizing for the manner in which WM Trotter addressed the president and describing the plan of the American Colonization Association to create a new Liberia on American soil for African Americans to govern themselves.
African-American colony
American Colonization Association
Black Separatism
segregation
Wilson and race