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[[Woodrow Wilson]], the second Democrat president after the [[Civil War]], introduced segregation into the United States government [[Civil service system|Civil Service]], requiring separate bathrooms and cafeterias in federal buildings and installations throughout the land, including Northern and Western states which had fought for the Union and existed without laws requiring segregation of the races. US [[military]] training and units also were segregated.

[[Woodrow Wilson]], the second Democrat president after the [[Civil War]], introduced segregation into the United States government [[Civil service system|Civil Service]], requiring separate bathrooms and cafeterias in federal buildings and installations throughout the land, including Northern and Western states which had fought for the Union and existed without laws requiring segregation of the races. US [[military]] training and units also were segregated.

[[File:Biden segregation.png 1718483346.png|left|350px|thumb|Sen. Joseph Biden called segregation "a matter of Black pride" and pushed for a [[Constitutional Amendment]] to outlaw Court ordered de-segregation.<ref name="politico.com">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968_full.html</ref>]]  

[[File:Biden segregation.png 1718483346.png|right|350px|thumb|Sen. Joseph Biden called segregation "a matter of Black pride" and pushed for a [[Constitutional Amendment]] to outlaw Court ordered de-segregation.<ref name="politico.com">https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968_full.html</ref>]]  

Segregation was allowed in public schools by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in [[Plessy v. Ferguson]] (1896), but then reversed after 20 years of Democrat control of both Houses of Congress and the presidency when [[President Eisenhower]] appointed former California Republican Gov. [[Earl Warren]] as Chief Justice. The [[Warren Court]] ordered school desegregation in [[Brown v. Board of Education]] (1954). As a reaction in the 1960s, Democrats "wanted policies that privileged whites."<ref>[http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.928/article_detail.asp The Myth of the Racist Republicans]</ref>

Segregation was allowed in public schools by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in [[Plessy v. Ferguson]] (1896), but then reversed after 20 years of Democrat control of both Houses of Congress and the presidency when [[President Eisenhower]] appointed former California Republican Gov. [[Earl Warren]] as Chief Justice. The [[Warren Court]] ordered school desegregation in [[Brown v. Board of Education]] (1954). As a reaction in the 1960s, Democrats "wanted policies that privileged whites."<ref>[http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.928/article_detail.asp The Myth of the Racist Republicans]</ref>