Woodrow Wilson's record on race relations ... leading non-violent protests not only against plays and films such as Birth of a Nation which had glorified the Ku Klux Klan, but also against ...

President Woodrow Wilson had just finished watching the White House screening of “Birth of a Nation,” an audaciously racist silent film released by D.W. Griffith in 1915, becoming Hollywood ...

The Wilson family bible records Thomas Woodrow Wilson's birth in Staunton ... Wilson sought to build the university into the nation's foremost center of scholarship. He proposed sweeping ...

Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first black owned film company in the United States, founded in response to ...

Yellin, history professor at the University of Richmond, wrote in his book, “Racism in the Nation’s Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson’s America.” In 1912 ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 1924 (UP) - A nation's sorrow at the death of Woodrow Wilson was expressed today in the silencing of the wheels of government, flags drooping at half staff and a proclamation ...