The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt

by Jill Watts

Book Overview

A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and 1940s as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Black Cabinet.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802148662
• ISBN13: 9780802148667
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"