Woodrow Wilson High School
Woodrow Wilson was even for his time back then in the early 20th century a racist. His victims were both in American and around the world. This is an informational page where we have some articles you quickly can read also a bibliography of books you can read about Wilson's racism and how he victimizd people.
Below are links so you can get involved and help as well as informational links for articles, news, videos, and books.
Below are links so you can get involved and help as well as informational links for articles, news, videos, and books.
Petition to Change the Name
Sign the petition and get connected into the campaign. Click on the picture above or the link below.
https://www.change.org/p/justin-henry-disd-school-board-president-change-the-name-of-woodrow-wilson-high-school-in-dallas-texas
Sign the petition and get connected into the campaign. Click on the picture above or the link below.
https://www.change.org/p/justin-henry-disd-school-board-president-change-the-name-of-woodrow-wilson-high-school-in-dallas-texas
Facebook Group to Change the Name
Click on the picture above or the link below for the Facebook group.
https://www.facebook.com/RWWHS.Dallas/
Click on the picture above or the link below for the Facebook group.
https://www.facebook.com/RWWHS.Dallas/
Opposition to renaming Woodrow Wilson H.S.
Rev. George Mason of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas wrote an essay against renaming Woodrow Wilson High School and renaming R.L. Thornton Hwy. It is at this link.
https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/2020/08/19/george-mason-9/
https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/2020/08/19/george-mason-9/
The rebuttal to Rev. George Mason's inane essay is below titled, "Fear of Losing the White Landscape."
News
https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/2020/07/01/disd-needs-to-do-whats-right-woodrow-wilson-alum-pro-football-hall-of-famer-tim-brown-supports-changing-schools-name/
https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/2020/07/02/tim-brown-woodrow-wilson-2
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/27/884310403/princeton-to-remove-woodrow-wilsons-name-from-public-policy-school
Opposition is organizing against the name change.
https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/2020/07/01/woodrow-alumni-petition
https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/2020/07/02/tim-brown-woodrow-wilson-2
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/27/884310403/princeton-to-remove-woodrow-wilsons-name-from-public-policy-school
Opposition is organizing against the name change.
https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/2020/07/01/woodrow-alumni-petition
Articles
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/woodrow-wilson-was-even-worse-than-you-think
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549
https://www.epi.org/blog/on-renaming-the-woodrow-wilson-school-the-standards-of-his-time-and-ours
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/woodrow-wilson-racism-self-determination.html
https://daily.jstor.org/the-fable-of-the-fourteen-points
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549
https://www.epi.org/blog/on-renaming-the-woodrow-wilson-school-the-standards-of-his-time-and-ours
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/woodrow-wilson-racism-self-determination.html
https://daily.jstor.org/the-fable-of-the-fourteen-points
Videos
https://video.wgbh.org/video/clip-episode-1-ho-chi-minhs-letter-j95sf9
https://www.c-span.org/video/?185745-1/jim-crow-wilson-administration
https://www.c-span.org/video/?185745-1/jim-crow-wilson-administration
Books
Unfortunately it is out of print and even the paperback is somewhat expensive. Checkyour library to see if they have a copy.
"Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration: Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Cenntury," by Nicholas Patler, Univ. of Colorado Press, 2007. You can purchase it at the following link.
https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Crow-Wilson-Administration-Segregation/dp/0870818643
"Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration: Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Cenntury," by Nicholas Patler, Univ. of Colorado Press, 2007. You can purchase it at the following link.
https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Crow-Wilson-Administration-Segregation/dp/0870818643