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But for the Virginia-born Wilson, the New Freedom was for whites only. The first southerner elected president since Zachary Taylor, Wilson immediately segregated the government’s workforce.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Bertram D. Tallamy, chief administrative officer of the Interstate Highway System during the 1950’s and ’60’s, says that the principles on which the System was built were principles that Robert Moses taught him in a series of such private lectures in 1926.
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“Institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement.”
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it. Unfazed, Wilson used his power as chief executive to segregate the federal government.
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
In his 1948 message on civil rights Truman was doing just that. “We believe that all men are created equal and that they have the right to equal justice under law,” the president wrote to Congress. “We believe that all men have the right to freedom of thought and of expression and the right to worship as they please. We believe that all men are
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