When Woodrow Wilson entered the White House in 1913, Washington was a rigidly segregated town — except for federal government agencies. They had been integrated during the post-war Reconstruction period, and African-Americans worked side by side with whites in federal jobs in government agencies. Wilson authorized members of his cabinet to reverse this long-standing policy of racial integration in the federal civil service. Segregated rest rooms were established in federal buildings.
A delegation of black professionals led by Monroe Trotter, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard and Boston newspaper editor, made an appointment at the White House to protest the new policies. But Wilson treated them rudely and declared that “segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”
On October 4, 1779, the Fort Wilson Riot began in Philadelphia. After the British left the city, the government of Pennsylvania attempted to seize property and banish 23 people for their treasonous loyalties. However, James Wilson— a Congressman in the Continental Congress and a professor of law —succeeded in having the charges dismissed. A mob, angered by Wilson’s feat, marched on his home. Wilson and 35 cohorts barricaded themselves, the home being later nicknamed Fort Wilson. Fighting broke out in which six died and 17 to 19 were wounded. Continental troops finally rescued Wilson and his colleagues. Joseph Reed, president of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Executive Council, issued a pardon for all the rioters.
USS Wilson (DD-408), a Benham-class destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Charles Wilson, a seaman in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG-7) was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer named for Admiral Henry Braid Wilson.
USS Robert L. Wilson (DD/DDE-847) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Marine Private First Class Robert L. Wilson (1920–1944), who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for “conspicuous gallantry” in the Battle of Tinian.
USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624), a Lafayette class ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Woodrow Wilson. It was launched in 1963, decommissioned in 1994, and has been recycled.
Woodrow Wilson’s name remains on Princeton University’s public policy school, despite calls to remove it because the former U.S. president was a segregationist. During Wilson’s tenure as president of Princeton, no blacks were admitted, though Harvard and Yale had admitted blacks decades earlier. Princeton admitted its first black student in the 1940s.
The band Wilson Phillips is made up of Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson and Chynna Phillips. Carnie and Wendy Wilson are the daughters of Beach Boys member Brian Wilson, and Chynna Phillips is the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips, of The Mamas and the Papas.
Michelle Phillips, formerly of The Mamas and the Papas, appeared as a former flame of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in a May 1988 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
"California Dreamin’ " was certified as a Gold Record (single) by the RIAA in June 1966 and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. Barry McGuire is mentioned several times in The Mamas & The Papas hit, “Creeque Alley”.
When he was defeated in his 1962 campaign for Governor of California, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon held an angry, sullen press conference, saying, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”
In Time magazine’s “Top 100 Most Influential Heroes and Icons of 2009”, Michelle Obama ranked first and Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger ranked second.
Brad Pitt and Barack Obama are ninth cousins; their common ancestor, eight great grandfather Edwin Hickman, lived in the Tidewater region of Virginia in the 1700s.
Although British Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder was called The Great Commoner, because of his refusal to accept a title, he finally took the title of First Earl of Chatham in 1766.
Pitt’s last words in the House of Lords were to try one last time to subdue the rebellious colonies:
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My Lords, any state is better than despair. Let us at least make one effort; and if we must fall, let us fall like men!
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With that, he collapsed into the arms of his son, William Pitt the Younger, and was carried out of the chamber for medical attention.
The Mull of Kintyre is the southwesternmost tip of the Kintyre Peninsula (formerly Cantyre) in southwest Scotland. Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748 – June 25, 1816) was born in Kintyre, Scotland. In 1787, Brackenridge founded the Pittsburgh Academy, now Pitt, the University of Pittsburgh.
Ireland can also be seen on a clear day from St Bees, Cumbria, on the Irish Sea. St Bees Head is the western-most point of England and the starting point for the Coast-to-Coast walk, a hike of approximately 195 miles east to Robin Hood Bay on the North Sea in Yorkshire.
The CtoC can be done in as few as 12 days by the determinedly fit, or up to a leisurely 21 days, with rest days. The latter is better adapted to Saskatchewan stubblejumpers.
The FCC Stubble Jumpers Club is a Toastmasters club in Regina SK. Toastmasters International originally began in 1903 as a series of short-lived speaking clubs organized by Ralph C. Smedley during his tenure with the YMCA facility in Bloomington IL.
A preliminary meeting to discuss the possible establishment of a Toastmasters chapter of the Cleveland, Ohio Municipal Court staff last year was attended by about two dozen people, but organizers later decided that there was insufficient interest and nothing more was done.
Smedley Butler was a United States Marine Corps major general, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. Butler is well known for having later become an outspoken critic of U.S. wars and their consequences, as well as exposing the Business Plot, an alleged plan to overthrow the U.S. government in 1934.
The House of Butler was one of the great families in Ireland from the Norman Conquest under Henry II down in to the 18th century. The senior branch of the family was centred in Kilkenny and produced the Earls, Marquesses and Dukes of Ormond. Rising death duties and falling revenue from landed estates eventually led the 6th Marquess and 24th Earl of Ormond to sell the Castle to a preservation society for £50 in 1967.
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