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Title
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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
Text
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Letter
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Wilson, Ellen Axson
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19140320
Text
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Washington, D. C.
Mrs President Wilson
Dear Madam:-
We appeal to you for assistance, as conditions at the new bureau of Engraving and Printing are anything but pleasant. We have the following complaints to make: The negro women use our stationary wash-stands hang their wraps among ours and use the same toilets as we. Now, is that proper? I neglected to say they also use the same lunch room.
They should have their own lockers, their own wash room & their own toilet. As there is plenty of room.
I do not imagine they should hold positions in office, when there are lots of poor widows, whose husbands were soldiers in the civil war, who would be glad to have positions that the negro women have. It worries us very much such doings we cannot stomach them washing their black faces in our wash stand & drying them in our towels.
Please do not let Mr. Ralph know that one of his employes wrote this, for fear of dismissal. He dismisses us for the least thing that happens, that is the white girls, but the negroes do as they please. I will not sign my name for fear he might discharge me & I am a poor widow & have nothing else to support me.
P.S. Please do not let Ralph get hold of this, as he is acquainted with our handwriting.
A poor widow.
We think a great deal of you and the President, for you had the negro girls separated from the white when you came through, but it did not last long, for at present they are so pert and give back talk to the white girls. It is very humiliating, I assure you.
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A Poor Widow to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
Creator
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Unknown
Identifier
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CS06
Date
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1914 March 20
Description
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An anonymous writer complains that African-American women use the same washstands, toilets, and lunch rooms as white women at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Source
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Library of Congress, 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
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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
Type
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Text
Subject
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African-Americans--segregation
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
segregation