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Robert Lansing
Title: Robert Lansing
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Robert Lansing
Robert Lansing (1864-1928)
Born: October 17, 1864 in Watertown, New York, United States
Died: October 30, 1928
Occupation: Secretary of state
As secretary of state during World War I, Robert Lansing was overshadowed by President Woodrow Wilson, who conducted most important foreign-policy matters himself. As the German ambassador to the United States once commented, "Since Wilson decides everything, any interview with Lansing is a mere matter of form."
Born in Watertown, New York, on 17 October 1864, Robert Lansing graduated from Amherst
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legalizes Jim Crow; Niagra Movement begins
• 1900 Spanish American War
• 1906 Brownville Affray
• 1910 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Founded; The Crisis, the NAACP's paper founded
• 1914 World War I starts in Europe; Wilson re-elected (does not like black people)
• 1917 US enters war: 2 black divisions (92nd and 93rd Divisions) activated; Des Moines Experiment
• 1918 November Armistice and demobilization;
• 1919 Red Summer- lynchings and Race riots
• African American Mosiac: Congressional Documents for the study of Black History and Culture
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