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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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Auteur principal: Dowdy, G. Wayne
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2006.
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Crump, Edward Hull, > 1874-1954.
United States. > Congress. > House.
United States. > Congress. > House > Biography.
Race relations.
Politics, Practical.
Politics and government.
Mayors.
Legislators.
African Americans > Politics and government.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Parlementaires > États-Unis > Biographies.
Noirs americains > Tennessee > Memphis > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siecle.
Maires > Tennessee > Memphis > Biographies.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Tennessee > Memphis > Politics and government > 20th century.
Politics, Practical > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
Mayors > Tennessee > Memphis > Biography.
United States.
Tennessee > Memphis.
Memphis (Tenn.) > Biography.
Memphis (Tenn.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Memphis (Tenn.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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. One of the forgotten builders of this modern Democratic Party was Memphis mayor and congressman Edward Hull Crump (1874-1954). Crump created a biracial, multiethnic coalition within the segregated South that transformed the Mississippi Delta's largest city into a modern southern metropolis. Crump expand.
Description matérielle:1 online resource: illustrations
ISBN:9781621035282

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