Farewell to the Party of Lincoln : : Black Politics in the Age of F.D.R / / Nancy Joan Weiss.
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 respo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1984 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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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