"The white men of the South were aroused by the mere instinct of self-preservation to rid themselves, by fair means or foul, of the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes and conducted in the interest of adventurers.â"
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Woodrow Wilson
1856 â 1924
PrÀsident der USA (1913-1921)
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