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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Watts, Jill, 1958- author.     Subjects     Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Relations with African Americans.     African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.     African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.     African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century.     United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.     United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Watts, Jill, 1958- author.       by title:      The black cabinet : ...         MARC Display

The black cabinet : the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt / Jill Watts. by Watts, Jill, 1958- author. New York, NY : Grove Press, 2020. Subjects Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Relations with African Americans.   African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.   African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.   African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century.   United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.   United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. ISBN:  9780802129109 (hardcover) : 0802129102 (hardcover) : Description:  xix, 540 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Requests:  0 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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 323.1196 Wa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 323.1196 Watts Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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