Farewell to the party of Lincoln : Black politics in the age of FDR /
This book examines a remarkable political phenomenon -- the dramatic shift of black voters from the Republican to the Democratic party in the 1930s, a shift all the more striking in light of the Democrats' indifference to racial concerns. Nancy J. Weiss shows that blacks became Democrats in res...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1983.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: The election of 1928
- The election of 1932
- New Deal or new bluff?
- Organizing a special interest group
- The rise of Black Democratic politicians
- The battle for antilynching legislation
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- The Black cabinet
- A climate of racial conservatism
- The election of 1936
- Why Blacks became Democrats
- Race in the second Roosevelt administration
- The election of 1940
- Conclusion.