Kenneth Reges

Jim Crow was needed, [President Woodrow] Wilson said, because without it, black Americans “were a danger to themselves as well as to those whom they had once served.” When President Wilson arrived in Washington, his administration resegregated the federal government, hounding from office large numbers of black federal employees. — Thomas C. Leonard (Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era^•)