Carolina QuotesSegregation is not humiliating but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen. If your organization goes out and tells the colored people of the country that it is a humiliation, they will so regard it, but if you do not tell them so, and regard it rather as a benefit, they will regard it the same. The only harm that will come will be if you cause them to think it is a humiliation... If this organization is ever to have another hearing before me it must have another spokesman. Your manner offends me...
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
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Defending the re-segregation of federal offices, in Conference with members of the National Association for Equal Rights (November 1914)
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- 1914
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