{"id":661,"date":"2023-02-23T13:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/?p=661"},"modified":"2023-05-11T13:12:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T18:12:12","slug":"taft-day-a-us-president-visits-the-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/exhibitions\/past\/taft-day-a-us-president-visits-the-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Taft Day: A US President Visits The Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>March 30 \u2013 May 5<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/Taft-at-The-W.jpg\" alt=\"Historic photograph of William Howard Taft and Henry Whitfield standing on the steps of Poindexter Music Hall\" class=\"wp-image-640\" width=\"497\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/Taft-at-The-W.jpg 662w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/Taft-at-The-W-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President William Howard Taft (center) stands with II&amp;C president Henry Whitfield on the steps of the Music Hall. November 1909.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Just after being elected, President William Howard Taft launched a whirlwind two-year tour of the United States.&nbsp; Invited by Columbus native Judge J. M. Dickinson, Taft\u2019s Secretary of War, the president toured the city on November 2, 1909.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This historical exhibition tells the story of Taft\u2019s visit to Columbus, starting with the elaborate preparations for the visit and the parade on the date that culminated with a barbecue on the lawn of the Industrial Institute and College (the original name of this university).&nbsp; Related background information about the suffrage movement and race relations in the state are also examined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taft\u2019s tour came at a time when the issue of women\u2019s suffrage was heating up nationally.&nbsp; As the first state-supported institution of higher learning for women in the United States, faculty and students here were engaged in this struggle.&nbsp; Taft acknowledged, but side-stepped, women\u2019s suffrage in his speech on our campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black citizens of the city were excluded from all planning for the President\u2019s visit.&nbsp; This was no oversight but rather a deliberate tactic that was sanctioned by Taft himself.&nbsp; The final panel contextualizes the visit exploring the changing Republican attitudes toward the White South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 30 \u2013 May 5 Just after being elected, President William Howard Taft launched a whirlwind two-year tour of the United States.&nbsp; Invited by Columbus native Judge J. M. Dickinson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10","category-past"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}