No discrimination in the civil service.

• Author: La Follette, Belle Case
• Position: 1914 - Brief article

To have the United States Government take a backward step, to have the color line drawn in places Negroes won on their merit, to be humiliated, repressed, and degraded at the capital of the nation by their own government, which has no right to discriminate among its citizens, is a body blow to hope and pride and incentive. Continued violations of fundamental principles of human rights...