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Article: Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era.(Review)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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Patricia Sullivan. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996, 368 pp. $39.95 cloth/$17.95 paper.
Reviewed by
David L. Chappell University of Arkansas
A central question in twentieth-century American history is why black voters, who were overwhelmingly Republican up to 1936, became overwhelmingly Democratic from that point on. Their sudden switch during Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal seems odd: New Deal agencies helped drive black sharecroppers off their land, and Roosevelt refused to support federal anti-lynching bills and efforts to restore black voting rights. Roosevelt's only significant concession to black protesters was his 1941 Executive ...