National Negro Democratic League to Woodrow Wilson
Title
National Negro Democratic League to Woodrow Wilson
Creator
Stewart, Joseph H.
Identifier
CS107
Date
1913 March 13
Description
Praise of Wilson’s Innagural Address; thanks for granting meeting.
Source
Library of Congress
Wilson Papers, Series 4, 153 Reel 231, Manuscript Division
Wilson Papers, Series 4, 153 Reel 231, Manuscript Division
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Inauguration, 1913
African-Americans--segregation
Contributor
Althea Cupo
Maria Matlock
Language
English
Provenance
Digital copy acquired from federal archives by previous WWPL Archivist, Heidi Hackford.
Text
Mr. President:
We congratulate you for your splendid Inaugural Address. It is teeming with expressions of justice and equal rights for each and every citizen. It expresses the ideals of equal rights as conceived by the founders of our Government. Being representatives of that class of American citizens who are habitually controlled by the forms and practices of the slavery of the past, we rejoice in your grand expressions of equal rights for every citizen. We assure you, Mr. President, of our activity and help in aiding you to make those noble sentiments of justice delivered by you on March 4th, 1913, a practical realization among the citizens of our great and grand country. No citizens are more patriotic and no citizens are more true and loyal to the stars and stripes than those we represent and we will always be willing and ready with whatever power we possess to uphold the equal rights of the citizens so well announced by you.
We thank you, Mr. President, for this interview and we hope that your administration will go down in history as one of the best in the United States of America.
Respectfully,
Joseph H. Stewart
Secretary
We congratulate you for your splendid Inaugural Address. It is teeming with expressions of justice and equal rights for each and every citizen. It expresses the ideals of equal rights as conceived by the founders of our Government. Being representatives of that class of American citizens who are habitually controlled by the forms and practices of the slavery of the past, we rejoice in your grand expressions of equal rights for every citizen. We assure you, Mr. President, of our activity and help in aiding you to make those noble sentiments of justice delivered by you on March 4th, 1913, a practical realization among the citizens of our great and grand country. No citizens are more patriotic and no citizens are more true and loyal to the stars and stripes than those we represent and we will always be willing and ready with whatever power we possess to uphold the equal rights of the citizens so well announced by you.
We thank you, Mr. President, for this interview and we hope that your administration will go down in history as one of the best in the United States of America.
Respectfully,
Joseph H. Stewart
Secretary
Original Format
Letter
To
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Files
Collection
Citation
Stewart, Joseph H., “National Negro Democratic League to Woodrow Wilson,” 1913 March 13, CS107, Race and Segregation Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.