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Jill Watts
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July 2019
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The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
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2020
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5 editions
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Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood
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2005
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8 editions
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Mae West: An Icon in Black and White
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2001
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9 editions
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God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story
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1991
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8 editions
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“Under Roosevelt, African Americans were abandoning the Republicans, the party of Lincoln, and voting for Democrats. A presidential election loomed ahead, in the fall of 1940. Black votes and black lives mattered. Roosevelt had to be reminded of that fact.”
― The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
― The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
“Mary McLeod Bethune accepted an appointment to head up a work program for African American youth, and with that, she became the first African American woman to lead a federal division.”
― The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
― The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
“FDR privately confessed to Walter White, the executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), that his reticence came because he feared that if he endorsed anti-lynching bills, white southerners would retaliate by dismantling the New Deal.”
― The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
― The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
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