WM Trotter to Secretary Redfield
Title
WM Trotter to Secretary Redfield
Creator
Trotter, William Monroe, 1872-1934
Identifier
SC111313a
Date
1913 November 14
Description
Referring to an article in Boston Record, WM Trotter calls on Secretary Redfield to end segregation in the Bureau of Domestic and Foreign Commerce.
Source
US National Archives and Records Administration 570/1/16/7 box #332 file #71315
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
African-Americans--segregation
Contributor
Althea Cupo
Maria Matlock
Language
English
Provenance
Digital copy acquired from federal archives by previous WWPL Archivist, Heidi Hackford.
Text
Secretary Redfield,
Department of Commerce,
Washington, D. C.
Boston record publishes statement 4 colored clerks Bureau Domestic and Foreign Commerce segregated by themselves in group in corner. This race discrimination injures, insults all colored Americans. Petition you in name of justice countermand this segregation, if it's true. League supported Democrats.
W. M. Trotter,
21 Cornhill National Independent
Political League.
Department of Commerce,
Washington, D. C.
Boston record publishes statement 4 colored clerks Bureau Domestic and Foreign Commerce segregated by themselves in group in corner. This race discrimination injures, insults all colored Americans. Petition you in name of justice countermand this segregation, if it's true. League supported Democrats.
W. M. Trotter,
21 Cornhill National Independent
Political League.
Original Format
Letter
To
Redfield, William Cox, 1858-1932
Files
Collection
Citation
Trotter, William Monroe, 1872-1934, “WM Trotter to Secretary Redfield ,” 1913 November 14, SC111313a, Race and Segregation Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.