Farewell to the Party of Lincoln : : Black Politics in the Age of F.D.R / / Nancy Joan Weiss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Weiss, Nancy Joan,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

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 response to the economic benefits of the New Deal and that they voted for Franklin Roosevelt in spite of the New Deal's lack of a substantive record on race. By their support for FDR blacks forged a political commitment to the Democratic party that has lasted to our own time. The last group to join the New Deal coalition, they have been the group that remained the most loyal to the Democratic party. This book explains the sources of their commitment in the 1930s. It stresses the central role of economic concerns in shaping black political behavior and clarifies both the New Deal record on race and the extraordinary relationship between black voters and the Roosevelts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PROLOGUE • The Election of 1928 -- I. The Election of 1932 -- II. New Deal or New Bluff? -- III. Organizing a Special Interest Group -- IV. The Rise of Black Democratic Politicians -- V. The Battle for Antilynching Legislation -- VI. Eleanor Roosevelt -- VII. The Black Cabinet -- VIII. A Climate of Racial Conservatism -- IX. The Election of 1936 -- X. Why Blacks Became Democrats -- XI. Race in the Second Roosevelt Administration -- XII. The Election of 1940 -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- A Note on Sources -- Index