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===Woodrow Wilson===
===Woodrow Wilson===
[[File:1924 DNC convention.jpg|right|350px|thumb|1924 Democratic Convention.]]
[[File:1924 DNC convention.jpg|right|350px|thumb|1924 Democratic Convention.]]
Woodrow Wilson was only the second Democrat elected since the [[Civil War]] and believed that blacks were inferior. Wilson segregated Washington, D.C. and all federal buildings and installations throughout the country with separate bathrooms and cafeterias - even in states without [[Jim Crow Laws]]. Wilson, segregated the Army, wiping out 50 years of social progress that Blacks had made under Republican administrations.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549/</ref> Military bases, post offices, and federal buildings in Northern states - states that won the war - were transformed to resemble Southern plantations, with Blacks allowed to work in the kitchen, but couldn't dine with Whites and had to use their own separate restrooms.
Woodrow Wilson was only the second Democrat elected president since the [[Civil War]], and he believed that blacks were inferior. Wilson segregated Washington, D.C. and all federal buildings and installations throughout the country with separate bathrooms and cafeterias - even in states without [[Jim Crow Laws]]. Wilson, segregated the Army, wiping out 50 years of social progress that Blacks had made under Republican administrations.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549/</ref> Military bases, post offices, and federal buildings in Northern states - states that won the war - were transformed to resemble Southern plantations, with Blacks allowed to work in the kitchen, but couldn't dine with Whites and had to use their own separate restrooms.
Wilson also believed that Italians were even more inferior,<ref>https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/1214/5-surprising-facts-about-Woodrow-Wilson-and-racism</ref> and he later appointed his anti-Semitic attorney general [[James McReynolds]] to the Supreme Court. According to [[Sigmund Freud]], Wilson had a mental disorder.
Wilson also believed that Italians were even more inferior,<ref>https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/1214/5-surprising-facts-about-Woodrow-Wilson-and-racism</ref> and he later appointed his anti-Semitic attorney general [[James McReynolds]] to the Supreme Court. According to [[Sigmund Freud]], Wilson had a mental disorder.