The South and the New Deal

by Roger Biles

Book Overview

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was unmistakably the most disadvantaged part of the nation. The region's economy was the weakest, its education level the lowest, and its laws and social mores the most racially slanted. Roosevelt's New Deal effected significant changes on the southern landscape, challenging many traditions and laying the foundations for subsequent alterations in the southern way of life. In The South...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813191696
• ISBN13: 9780813191690
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 11.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"