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E-PrinceFirestone Library is honoring former University President Woodrow Wilson, Class of 1879, on the centennial of his election as President of the United States in 1912 with an exhibit in the library’s Milberg Gallery.
The exhibition, titled “The Election ...
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Looking forward to viewing the exhibit and hoping it is balanced in its portrayal. Thomas Wilson was arguably our most racist president. I hope this is documented.
Good 100 year commemoration.The 1912 election--when the Republican Party paused from being monolithic,and the Democrats nominated a bi-regional candidate;an Ivy League contest among Princeton,Yale,and Harvard competitors.
Woodrow Wilson showed the infamous movie "The Birth of a Nation" in the White House, segregated Washington ever more, refused to meet with W.E.B. DuBois after WWI to discuss Wilson's rhetorical commitment to self-determination for lands newly liberated from colonial empires, and showed only contempt for non-whites. No president has been as hypocritical as he, with his utopian rhetoric of equality for all peoples. To be sure, he appointed the first Jew, Brandeis, to the Supreme Court. But any new exhibit about Wilson should concede his unrelenting racism and hypocrisy.