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Author
Publisher
Lyons Press, An imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that granted slaves their freedom. During these years, slaves were the only African Americans to whom the most powerful men in the United States were exposed on a daily, and familiar, basis. By reading about these often-intimate relationships, readers will better...
6) The black cabinet: the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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....
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