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Mayor Crump don't like it : machine politics in Memphis /

In the 1930s thousands of African Americans abandoned their long-standing allegiance to the party of Abraham Lincoln and began voting for Democratic Party candidates. This new voting pattern remapped the nation's political landscape and altered the relationship between citizen and government. O...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dowdy, G. Wayne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A business government by a business man
  • The black flag of machine politics
  • The people have made their statement
  • A good Tammany Hall Tennessean
  • The honor of having no opposition
  • God bless you, boss.