Days of Hope Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era

Name: Days of Hope Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era
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ISBN: 9780807845646

ISBN-10: 0807845647

ISBN-13: 9780807845646

Edition: 1996

Authors: Patricia Sullivan

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In the 1930s and 1940s, a loose alliance of blacks and whites, individuals and organizations, came together to offer a radical alternative to southern conservative politics. InDays of Hope, Patricia Sullivan traces the rise and fall of this movement. Using oral interviews with participants in this movement as well as documentary sources, she demonstrates that the New Deal era inspired a coalition of liberals, black activists, labor organizers, and Communist Party workers who sought to secure the New Deal's social and economic reforms by broadening the base of political participation in the South. From its origins in a nationwide campaign to abolish the poll tax, the initiative to expand…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/22/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction



On the Eve of the New Deal



Challenge to the Solid South: The Politics of New Deal Reform, 1933-1938



Southern Seeds of Change, 1931-1938



Whose South?: Wartime Battles on Capitol Hill



War, Race, and Democracy: The South in Transition



Democrats at the Crossroads, 1944



Organizing the Southern Movement: Voter Registration and Political Action, 1945-1946



The Closing Circle of Democratic Party Politics: Breakup of the New Deal Coalition


Epilogue


Bibliography


Index