The black cabinet : the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt

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The black cabinet : the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt

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the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt

Statement of responsibility

Jill Watts

Title variation

Untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt

Creator

• Watts, Jill, 1958-

Author

• Watts, Jill, 1958-

Subject

• African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Roosevelt, Franklin D., (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Relations with African Americans
• African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
• United States -- Race relations | Political aspects -- 20th century
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
• African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. | History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

"In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with the help of key African American defectors from the Republican Party. At the time, most African Americans lived in poverty in the South, denied citizenship rights and terrorized by white violence. But Roosevelt's victory created the opportunity for a group of African American intellectuals and activists to join his administration as racial affairs experts. Known as the Black Cabinet, they organized themselves into an unofficial council. They innovated antidiscrimination policy, documented the New Deal's inequalities, led programs that lifted people out of poverty and paved the way for greater federal accountability to African Americans and a greater black presence in government. But the Black Cabinet never won official recognition from Roosevelt, and with his death, it disappeared from history. This is its story"--

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Provided by publisher

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DLC

Dewey number

323.1196/0730904

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

E807

LC item number

.W36 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult