Wilson helped bring in the income tax, the Fed, the federal 8-hour day, the Federal Trade Commission, anti-trust legislation, legislation against child labor.
Wilson helped bring in the income tax, the Fed, the federal 8-hour day, the Federal Trade Commission, anti-trust legislation, legislation against child labor.
In my personal case it was small time peace church folk who had been locked up for being vocal about being anti-war and conscientious objectors during a war.
Wilson helped bring in the income tax, the Fed, the federal 8-hour day, the Federal Trade Commission, anti-trust legislation, legislation against child labor.
Wilson also went out of his way to purge African-Americans from the Federal workforce.
https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/how-woodrow-wilsons-racist-segregation-order-eroded-the-black-civil-service/#:~:text=Wilson%20imposed%20segregation%20in%20his,Wilson's%20order%20was%20overtly%20discriminatory.
IтАЩm well aware of that. That was the point to which I was responding. He also had a horrible record on civil liberties during World War I.
I knew folks as a child that did prison time under Wilson/Palmer for political crimes.
They werenтАЩt even reds, just insufficiently pro-nationalist.
Like Eugene Debs.
In my personal case it was small time peace church folk who had been locked up for being vocal about being anti-war and conscientious objectors during a war.
Which was upheld by his GOP successors and largely reversed by New Dealers, despite the Solid South.