The progressive who won a Nobel Peace Prize for leading the creation of the League of Nations?
Too bad Wilson unilaterally killed a proposal from Japan to include a racial equality provision in the charter of the League of Nations. And while he championed the cause of self-determination for many stateless peoples of Eastern Europe, his sympathy did not extend to the "backward countries" of Asia and Africa.
On the home-front, Wilson was extremely racist, even by the standards of his time. As an academic, he wrote a history textbook romanticizing the Confederacy and the Ku Klux Klan. It also describes the institution of slavery as a relatively benign affair.
As president of Princeton, he refused to admit black students and took steps to erase from the public record that African Americans had ever attended or instructed at the university. Talk about “cancel culture.”
As President, he rolled back economic gains for African Americans, overseeing the segregation of multiple agencies of the federal government. This effort included dismissing black supervisors, cutting off black employees’ access to promotions and reserving those better paying jobs for white workers.
A Princeton committee looked at the totality of his work. The committee weighed Wilson's racist policies with the contributions he made to the nation. It determined that his racist thinking and beliefs made him an inappropriate namesake for the university’s public policy school.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158356/woodrow-wilson-racism-princeton-universityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race
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