How did wilson fail in the area of the civil rights?

Trotter began with a reference to their 1913 meeting and to the petition he had presented, containing 20,000 signatures "from thirty-eight states protesting against the segregation of employees of the national government." He listed the on-the-job race separation that had gone unchecked since-at eating tables, dressing rooms, restrooms, lockers, and "especially public toilets in government buildings." He then charged that the color line was drawn in the Treasury Department, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Navy Department, the Interior Department, the Marine Hospital, the War Department, and in the Sewing and Printing Divisions of the Government Printing Office. Trotter also noted the political support he and other civil-rights activists had provided to Wilson. "Only two years ago you were heralded as perhaps the second Lincoln, and now the Afro-American leaders who supported you are hounded as false leaders and traitors to their race," he said. And then he reminded the president of his pledge to assist "colored fellow citizens" in "advancing the interest of their race in the United States," and ended by posing a question that contained a jab at Wilson’s much-ballyhooed economic reform program. "Have you a ‘New Freedom’ for white Americans and a new slavery for your Afro-American fellow citizens? God forbid!"