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Author Watts, Jill, 1958- author.

Title The black cabinet : the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt / Jill Watts.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2020.
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Edition First edition.
Description xix, 540 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Gender group: gdr Women lcdgt
Occupational/field of activity group: occ History teachers lcdgt
Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members lcdgt
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue -- Of people and politics, 1908-1932. Remembrance ; Turning the picture of Lincoln to the wall -- Called to Washington, 1933-1935. Will the New Deal be a fair deal? ; A Black cabinet ; Factions -- Thinking and planning together, 1935-1939. Star-led ; We belong here ; Things are happening ; Thwarted -- Fighting on two fronts, 1940-1944. Keep 'em squirming ; Mobilization ; Mighty struggle ; Last of the brain trusters -- Vanishing figures. No resting.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Relations with African Americans.
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
HISTORY / Social History.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. (OCoLC)fst00032031
Race relations -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01086519
African Americans -- Economic conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799599
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst00799632
African Americans -- Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst00799659
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Relations with African Americans. (OCoLC)fst01354226
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
African Americans.
United States -- Race relations.
African Americans -- Economic conditions.
United States -- Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Informational works. (OCoLC)fst01919930
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Informational works.
Added Title Untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt
ISBN 9780802129109 (hardcover)
0802129102 (hardcover)
9780802148667 (paperback)
0802148662 (paperback)
9780802146922 (ebook)
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