Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist — even by the standards of his time
By Dylan Matthews@dylanmattdylan@vox.com Nov 20, 2015, 8:10am EST
This Wednesday, a group of Princeton students stormed the offices of president Christopher Eisgruber to demand that Woodrow Wilson's name be removed from all programs and buildings at the university. That's a big ask. Princeton has an entire school — the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs — named after Wilson, who served as university president from 1902 to 1910, before his time in the White House. It also has Wilson College, a residential college for undergrads.
So far, the university is standing firm, insisting that, in the Associated Press's words, "it is important to weigh Wilson's racism, and how bad it was, with the contributions he made to the nation." And outside of Princeton, the incident is being seized upon as yet another example of campus PC run amok:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist
