Woodrow Wilson’s Policy towards African Americans and Womens suffrage
Woodrow Wilson served as our 28th president from 1913 to 1921. At first women’s suffrage was not on his agenda of things he was going to accomplish in his presidency. Woodrow then became a major supporter and advocate of women’s suffrage. Women’s Suffrage is the right for women to vote or stand for office, which also will lead to equal rights for women as men. The Women’s Suffrage Movement began in the mid 1800’s and the amount of people involved grew until 1920 when the 19th amendment was passed. The nineteenth amendment states; “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Lucy Stone was an important part of women’s suffrage. She organized campaigns, she was the first to support women's suffrage.
Woman’s Suffrage helped form the United States Constitution of today becoming the 19th amendment. This was very important to many not only women but also men. Men were also big advocates of women’s suffrage. I’m grateful that any American citizen can vote. Women today have all the women and men to thank for their right to vote.
Wilson was never anti-negro but he grew up in Virginia with southern beliefs. Wilson strongly believed in segregation and made more of the united states segregated. Screens were put up to separate white and black government workers under Woodrow’s policy. Many African-Americans including Monroe Trotter were unhappy with segregation and Monroe believed it to be humiliating and degrading to their race.He approached Woodrow about his feelings. Wilson, on the other hand, argued back saying that it is only humiliating if you say and believe it is. Woodrow said they should think of it as beneficial. Under Wilson’s policy he also made interracial marriage a felony.
I think some of his policies came off as very racist. Historians believe that was not one of his best accomplishments. We also have to understand that segregation was popular to many white Americans and was common at the time. All in all Woodrow Wilson’s mistakes were made up for by presidents after him.
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