Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta

by Karen Ferguson

Book Overview

When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these men and women were almost entirely excluded from public life, but as Karen Ferguson demonstrates, Roosevelt's New Deal opened unprecedented opportunities for black Atlantans struggling to achieve full citizenship.

Black reformers, often working within federal agencies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807853704
• ISBN13: 9780807853702
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"