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Black culture and the New Deal : the quest for civil rights in the Roosevelt era /

"In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc--refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to improve political, economic, and social conditions for African Americans. Instead, as historian Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff shows, the ad...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ambivalent inclusion
  • Hooked on classics
  • The editor's dilemma
  • Constructing G.I. Joe Louis
  • Variety for the servicemen
  • Projecting unity
  • Epilogue.