Wilson Administration Segregates Federal Government: Jim Crow Comes to Washington
Within months of taking office, President Woodrow Wilson’s administration began systematically segregating the federal government, reversing decades of relative integration in civil service employment. Postmaster General Albert Burleson proposed segregation at an April 11, 1913 cabinet …
President Woodrow Wilson
Postmaster General Albert Burleson
Treasury Secretary William McAdoo
NAACP
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