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The decline of racism was radically reversed by Woodrow Wilson, who was an open white supremacist and hosted the KKK at the White House for example. He was perhaps one of the worst presidents in American history.

https://www.history.com/news/woodrow-wilson-racial-segregati...

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Not clear that there was a racism decline, post-Reconstruction, on a collective national basis.

Millions of people and the cultural biases they carried and refreshed, with the following generations, never went away.