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The Black Cabinet : The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt by Jill Watts [Watts, Jill] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and 1940s as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Black Cabinet.In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impoverished, terrorized by white violence, and denied the basic rights of citizenship. As the Democrats swept into the White House on a wave of black defectors from the Party of Lincoln, a group of African American intellectuals—legal minds, social scientists, media folk—sought to get the community's needs on the table. This would become the Black Cabinet, a group of African American racial affairs experts working throughout the New Deal, forming an unofficial advisory council to lobby the President. But with the white Southern vote so important to the fortunes of the Party, the path would be far from smooth.Most prominent in...
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- Author
- Jill Watts [Watts, Jill]
- Publisher
- Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802129109
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Social Science
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (242 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14