Black culture and the New Deal : the quest for civil rights in the Roosevelt era / Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff.

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"In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc--refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to improve political, economic, and social conditions for African Americans. Instead, as historian Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff shows, the adminis...

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Main Author: Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects > History > 20th century.
Social change > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Cultural policy > History > 20th century.
Art and state > United States > History > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Art and state.
Cultural policy.
Politics and government.
Race relations > Political aspects.
Social change.
United States.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
History.
Genre:
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (JSTOR)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) : illustrations
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Ambivalent inclusion
  • Hooked on classics
  • The editor's dilemma
  • Constructing G.I. Joe Louis
  • Variety for the servicemen
  • Projecting unity
  • Epilogue.