The famous American University of Princeton will withdraw the name of Woodrow Wilson, a former American with racist ideas, who carried his school of public and international affairs, announced the establishment on Saturday. “The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs“is now called”The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs“, decided the board of directors.”Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make it an inappropriate namesake“, underlined the management of the establishment of New Jersey.
President of the United States from 1913 to 1921
Woodrow Wilson directed the university from 1902 to 1910, then became governor of the state of New Jersey. Democrat, he was then the 28th president of the United States from March 1913 to March 1921. In 1917, during his presidency, he decided that the United States should join the battles of the First World War, on the side of the Allies.
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The #Princetonu Board of Trustees has voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the School of Public Policy and International Affairs and residential college. https://t.co/rt17hfDCk2
— Princeton University (@Princeton) June 27, 2020
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“Wilson’s racism was significant and consistent even by the standards of his time“the university said in a statement.”He reintroduced racial segregation into public services after decades of racial integration, which sent America back in its struggle for equality. He not only acquiesced but contributed to the persistent practice of racism in this country, a practice that continues to hurt today“.
Nobel Prize of Peace
In 2016, despite student protests, the university rejected a name change to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Woodrow Wilson is also known to have won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. He received the award for his contribution to the end of the Great War and to the founding of the League of Nations, the United Nations’ predecessor. (UN).
Since the death of the Black American George Floyd during a brutal police arrest, the debate on racism and police brutality rages on in the United States. Many institutions and companies have already changed their names.
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