In 1912 Woodrow Wilson was an unlikely Democratic candidate for the presidency, a sometime law professor and president of Princeton who had only served in public office for two years, as governor of New Jersey. But then it would be an unusual election, with a three-way fight. When the incumbent, William Howard Taft, defeated Theodore Roosevelt, his predecessor in the White House, for the Republican nomination, Roosevelt ran as a “Progressive”, splitting the Republican vote and allowing Wilson to win the presidency with little more than two-fifths of the popular vote.
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Trump reschedules Tulsa rally after criticism of overlap with Juneteenth
Trump reschedules Tulsa rally after criticism of overlap with Juneteenth
The rally would have fallen on Juneteenth, a day that memorializes the end of slavery. The site of the rally, Tulsa, was home to a notorious instance of racial violence hundreds of black people were massacred 99 years ago.
Tulsa’s ‘Black Wall Street’ Flourished as a Self-Contained Hub in Early 1900s
Before the Tulsa Race Massacre where the city’s black district of Greenwood was attacked by a white mob, resulting in two days of bloodshed and destruction, the area had been considered one of the most affluent African American communities in the United States for the early part of the 20th century.
Tulsa’s ‘Black Wall Street’ Flourished as a Self-Contained Hub in Early 1900s
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