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Racism in the Nation's Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America

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Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal government. However, by 1920, promotions to well-paying federal jobs had nearly vanished for black workers. Eric S. Yellin argues that the Wilson administration's successful 1913 drive to segregate the federal government was a pivotal episode in the age of progressive politics. Yellin investigates how the enactment of this policy, based on Progressives' demands for whiteness in government, imposed a color line on American opportunity and implicated Washington in the economic limitation of African Americans for decades to come.
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Eric S. Yellin is assistant professor of history and American studies at the University of Richmond.
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ISBN:
9781469607207
Subtitle:
Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America
Author:
Yellin, Eric S.
Author:
Yellin, Eric
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Subject:
African American Studies
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
African Americans in the Republican Party
Subject:
Archibald Grimké
Subject:
black civil servants
Subject:
nineteenth-century black politicians
Subject:
nineteenth-century black politics
Subject:
Civil service reform
Subject:
District of Columbia
Subject:
Federal government
Subject:
government corruption
Subject:
government reform in the progressive era
Subject:
NAACP
Subject:
office work
Subject:
political patronage
Subject:
President Calvin Coolidge
Subject:
President Theodore Roosevelt
Subject:
President Warren G. Harding
Subject:
President William Howard Taft
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President Woodrow Wilson
Subject:
Progressive Era
Subject:
progressive politics
Subject:
race and national politics
Subject:
racial segregation
Subject:
racism in the federal government
Subject:
reform politics
Subject:
the American State
Subject:
United States Civil Service
Subject:
Washington
Subject:
DC
Subject:
white supremacy in the Democratic Party
Subject:
white-collar labor
Subject:
William Gibbs McAdoo
Subject:
William Monroe Trotter
Subject:
Wilson administration, racism in the nations service
Subject:
eric yellin
Subject:
United States Civil Serv
Subject:
Ice
Subject:
African American Studies-General
Copyright:
2013
Publication Date:
20130422
Binding:
Hardback
Language:
English
Pages:
336
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.125 in
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History and Social Science » African American Studies » General
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History and Social Science » Politics » Labor
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