[282] In August 1923, Wilson attended the funeral of his successor, Warren Harding.[283] On November 10, 1923, Wilson made his last national address, delivering a short Armistice Day radio speech from the library of his home.[284][285]

Wilson's health did not markedly improve after leaving office,[286] declining rapidly in January 1924. Woodrow Wilson died on February 3, 1924, at the age of 67.[287] He was interred in Washington National Cathedral, being the only president whose final resting place lies within the nation's capital.[288]

Race relations
Further information: Woodrow Wilson and race
Quotation from Woodrow Wilson's History of the American People as reproduced in the film The Birth of a Nation.
Wilson was born and raised in the South by parents who were committed supporters of both slavery and the Confederacy. Academically, Wilson was an apologist for slavery and the Redeemers, and one of the foremost promoters of the Lost Cause mythology.[289]
Wilson was the first Southerner elected president since Zachary Taylor in 1848 and the only former subject of the Confederacy. Wilson's election was celebrated by southern segregationists. At Princeton, Wilson actively dissuaded the admission of African-Americans as students.