The secret history of how Jefferson's words were doctored inside his memorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : It was a delicate task at a time when calls for civil rights clashed with ongoing segregation and Jim Crow laws.
53% : Some commissioners thought there was little evidence to show that Jefferson had effectively played such a role, and others feared that highlighting equality would send the wrong message to Black people, who were still subject to Jim Crow segregation in the South.
53% : He agreed to sign legislation that created the Fair Employment Practices Committee and prohibited certain forms of discrimination by the government (although it didn't integrate the armed forces).
46% : There was no doubt that Jefferson could be celebrated for his scientific mind, his visionary call for religious freedom and his overarching concept that the combination of monarchy and an unrepresentative government was antithetical to liberty.
27% : His New Deal programs might have seemed at odds with Jefferson's belief in small government, but Roosevelt viewed Jefferson as having fought on behalf of the common man.

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