37 Citations
The Election of 1916, “Negrowumpism,” and the Black Defection from the Republican Party
- HistoryThe Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
- 2021
Abstract This essay examines the debate within the community of Black intellectuals and politicians about whether or not to abandon the Republican Party in 1916, and discusses both major parties’…
The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government Under Woodrow Wilson
- Economics
- 2020
We link personnel records of the federal civil service to census data for 1907-1921 to study the segregation of the civil service by race under President Woodrow Wilson. Using a…
The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation
- EconomicsSSRN Electronic Journal
- 2019
We use panel data covering 118 million homes in the United States, merged with geolocation detail for 75,000 taxing entities, to document a nationwide "assessment gap" which leads local governments…
Toward a History of Modernism in Washington: The 1933 Display of Art by African Americans at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Gallery of Art
- Art, HistoryAmerican Art
- 2019
Unlike previous displays of art by African Americans presented on the National Mall in 1929 and 1930 that were derived chiefly from shows organized by the Harmon Foundation in New York, the…