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How the black middle class was attacked by Woodrow Wilson’s administration

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When Woodrow Wilson arrived in the nation’s capital in March 1913, he brought with him an administration loaded with white supremacists. Wilson’s lieutenants segregated offices, harassed black workers, and removed black politicians from political appointments held by black men for more than a...

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