TY - BOOK ID - 77921749 TI - Racism in the Nation's Service : Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America PY - 2013 SN - 1469607212 1469608022 9781469607214 9781469608020 9781469607207 1469607204 1469628384 PB - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - African Americans KW - African Americans in the civil service KW - Jim Crowism KW - Segregation KW - Afro-Americans in the civil service KW - Civil service KW - Segregation. KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Wilson, Woodrow, KW - Wei-erh-hsün, KW - Vilʹson, Vudro, KW - Wilson, Thomas Woodrow, KW - Wilson, T. W. KW - Wiruson, Wuddorō, KW - Wilson, Tommy, KW - 威爾遜, KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77921749 AB - Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal government. By 1920, promotions to well-paying federal jobs had nearly vanished for black workers. This book argues that the Wilson administration's successful 1913 drive to segregate the federal government was a pivotal episode in the age of progressive politics. It 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. ER -