Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, a box-office smash which Wilson personally screened at the White House, the first American film ever shown there. An excerpt from Wilson’s revisionist writings proclaiming the Klan “a veritable empire of the South” even appears in D. Not surprisingly, 1913 also saw a rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. As president, he normalized his revanchist views from the White House by expanding segregation of federal workers. Wilson saw Jim Crow as the necessary remedy to the aftermath of the Civil War. While we remember Wilson for his internationalist foreign policy and progressive labor laws, he was also the first Southerner elected since the mid-19th century, and his racial policies reflected it.
ON MARCH 4, 1913, Woodrow Wilson took the oath of office and became our 28th president.
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