Dr. Robert C. Smith is an African American politics expert.
Segregation is a benefit and should be considered by you. If you tell the colored people of the country that it's a humiliation, they will see it as a compliment.
Wilson spoke those words during an exchange at the White House with a delegation of Black citizens led by journalist William Monroe Trotter.
46 men have served as president of the United States since America gained its independence. Civil rights legislation, freeing enslaved people, and removing barriers to opportunity are just some of the things these men have accomplished.
Some presidents have been hostile to the black community. Some people have used the federal government to deny black people their rights.
Robert C. Smith is a renowned expert on African American politics who has written 10 books and many papers.
He didn't give any order to his thoughts on the worst presidents. The best presidents can be found here. The conversations have been edited for clarity and brevity.
Johnson was the 17th president.
He did not oppose the implementation of the "Black Codes" that limited the rights of people recently freed from enslavement.
He was a racist. In his state papers, he said that Africans should be held in a lower position than whites. Equal treatment between the races is not something that should happen. The southern white people were told that they could do with their slaves whatever they wanted. They wanted to keep Black people in as much slavery as was allowed by the 13th amendment. Slavery was instituted by states under Johnson. The Black Codes were enacted in the South to limit the rights of Black people.
Congress overrode Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Act. He violated his oath when he refused to enforce the civil rights legislation that Congress passed. He came within one vote of being removed from office due to that.
Reagan was the 40th president.
He didn't use the federal government to improve the lives of black people because he was conservative.
The idea of limited government and the belief that government should not try to correct social conditions were some of the reasons why Reagan was racist.
With Reagan, particularly in the Republican Party, we are still living. The government shouldn't do anything to address poverty in Black America. One of the legacies of Ronald Reagan is that.
The 19th president of the United States was Rutherford B.
He agreed to pull federal troops out of the South in order to become president. The Ku Klux Klan terrorism against black people in the South was a result of that action.
The general was a decent politician on race. The federal troops who protected the rights of the newly emancipated persons in the South were withdrawn in 1877. Black people were reduced to near-slavery in terms of labor and their right to vote as a result of this.
Wilson was the 28th president of the United States.
Civil service jobs in the federal government were taken away from black people.
Wilson was a racist. He believed that blacks should be held in lower levels of power. Black people and white people in Civil Service in Washington worked together before his presidency. Complete segregation was imposed by him. There was a decline in the number of black people in civil service employment after he started the process.
The 45th president of the United States is Donald Trump.
He has put Black people at risk by putting white nationalism into the Republican Party.
White Christian nationalism is a part of the Republican Party. The resources are going to black people more than they are to white people. The theme of this campaign was immigration and his supporters are worried about that. He wanted to get rid of the Haitians, get rid of the Salvadoreans, and get some Norwegians to come to America. The idea of a racist hierarchy between white people and the rest of the world is implicit.
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