After winning the 1908 preidential election in a landlide a Theodore Rooevelt'
, William Howard Taft faced tiff oppoition in hi reelection bid, even from hi own party. Diatified with Taft’ conervative view, Rooevelt returned to run a a member of the
Party. Many African American hoped that Democrat Woodrow Wilon would champion racial equality, and their upport aided hi victory. However, Wilon wa detined to diappoint them