opinion
BAD WOOD
The 28th President of the United States enabled segregation and vile treatment of Black federal workers. He doesn’t deserve an image rehabilitation.
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. is the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies and the director of the Center for the Study of the American South, at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Kelley is the author of Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class (Liveright, 2023).