The Impact Of The New Deal

The Impact of the New Deal on the United States The Great Depression, an era of great poverty, misery, and

In the late 40’s, particularly 1948, the Democratic Convention as well as the Republican Convention was held in Philidelphia. A lot was going on in the political world. This was an era where President Harry Truman was battling issues dealing with the anti-lynching laws, getting rid of poll taxes and allowing African Americans to join with whites in the armed forces by desegregating it. The atmosphere was filled with northern liberals Democrats who backed Truman’s ideologies on civil rights. Gaining the African American vote was a significant boost Having civil rights, and being treated as equals among whites, those conversations fell on deaf ears and were ultimately forgotten. African Americans were still being treated like second-class citizens,

There have been many indications that lead to conclude that African Americans vote differently than those of the Caucasian race. From past knowledge and own understanding, many black citizens have a tendency to vote democratic, especially in the recent presidential elections. On page three of a ProQuest Dissertation done by Leonard David Thomas, he states, “… that for blacks there has been a long term and consistent struggle (i.e. social movements)” (Thomas 2010). Based on self interpretation, these struggles may have a reason on the way they vote and identify as a race. In America, there have been many issues with slavery and racism, creating a “race-based” ideology platform with more democratic views, wanting the government to have less social order on their lives. Leonard David Thomas also explained, “Racial domination means that based on race, individual and group movement are controlled. For the controlled, full participation in society is restricted. Roles and activities are determined by stereotypes and norms that sort people of color into less powerful positions. In addition, dominated groups organize to oppose their domination. By interpreting the social system as radicalized, the focus must be on the social structure” (Thomas 2010). This statement explains that, since the African American race has been oppressed and made feel lesser in politics, usually creating them to be Democratic and more liberal, or even making them less likely to vote in elections

Eleanor Roosevelt was very influential in the policies of the New Deal, and also spoke very openly in support of civil rights and women’s rights. She worked to expand the amount of women in the Roosevelt administration and said that women should still be able to have jobs even if their husbands were employed. She supported the Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union and promoted the inclusion of blacks in the government. Eleanor visited migrant camps, coal mines, and the homes of sharecroppers. She also founded many programs to help people who were affected by the Great Depression.

The right to vote for African American became difficult during the time because the northern didn’t want to consider the blacks as equal to the society. As Frederick Douglass, has once stated “Slavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot.” African American fought their way to gain their right to vote is by coming together, free blacks and emancipated slaves, to create parades, petition drives to demand, and to organize their own “freedom ballots.” As a free African American, they except the same respect as the whites and nothing

Because many of the black people had moved to cities, it made the number of blacks grow in certain areas, giving them the amount of power needed to elect officials. The blacks influence on the outcome of the political races were realized by the politicians, who began to support civil rights and oppose segregation. Blacks began to win

Ever since Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, African-Americans had been Republican. The GOP was the party of Lincoln, the party that had given them the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. The Republican Party supported blacks, whereas the Democrat Party was the party of the South, and the Southern, White plantation owner. To the black community, the Republican Party represented "the high-minded, idealistic, God-fearing people," whereas Democrats "dabbled in influence-peddling and vice" (Weiss 1983: 3). All blacks knew where to lay their loyalties -- with the party

As the state elections of 1898 approached, the Fusion party was not thriving as well as it had been, when preparing for the last election. The Democratic party was preparing to defeat the Republicans in the election and were being led by Furnifold Simmons, the party chairman. He did a great deal of organizing and campaigning in an attempt to have Democrats regain power over the city. Simmons worked hard to prevent “negro denomination”, a fear that many white segregationists had at the time, they worried that if African Americans gained too much power in government, eventually they would take over. In reality, African Americans only wanted a say in how they were governed and wanted to be treated equally under the law. To conquer this fear that many white Democrats possessed, they planned to take over the government and run any influential African Americans out of town, to somewhere that they would no longer influence and encourage people to stand up for equal

Philip Randolph as its first president. The National Negro Congress helped promote the growing political origination of the African American community. The political origination of the black community helped the presidential election of 1936. The Democratic Party received many votes and Roosevelt received 76 percent of the north black male votes. The momentum the African American brought intensified after the election. They put more pressure of demands on Roosevelt's New Deal administration. They placed justice before the law as their highest priority. They gave the democrats and Roosevelt their win and they demanded their fair shake. In the 1933, the NACCP organized group called the Writers League Against Lynching to help pass federal anti-lynching law. They try to pass the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill. The president did support the bill, but it was filibustered by southern senators in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, and 1940. They continue to try to pass an anti-lynching bill, but it all end it failure. The only good to come out of this failure was that in 1935 there was a reported of eighteen lynching by the 1939 there was only two reported

Not all Southerners were completely unsympathetic to the black struggle, but many beliefs weren 't much better. Many saw blacks as the "white man 's burden" and treated them with paternalism and noblesse oblige. It was patronizing to blacks and done mainly in politics to gain black voting support. Eleanor Roosevelt, however, was a true supporter in the campaign for equality. She fought for anti-lynching laws and spoke out publicly against racial prejudice. Women 's organizations also banned together to speak out against lynching to defuse the idea that the white female needs protection from black men.

The swing toward the democrats started with the election of Franklin delonar Roosevelt in 1932 when he garnered an amazing, 71% of the black vote. While the sucess of FDR was amazing, it wasn’t until Harry Truman ran for Preesident in 1948 securing 77 percent of the black vote. Exit polling showed that for probably the first time in American politics a majority of

Because of the anti-slavery beliefs of the Republican Party in the past African Americans supported the party in the early years after the civil war. “In fact, throughout Reconstruction, African Americans comprised about 90% of GOP membership, and 44 African Americans served in the Texas legislature as Republicans. It was through the hard work of a number of dedicated African American men and women that the earliest foundations of the Republican Party of Texas were laid. The

The Democratic Party grew out of the Republican Democratic Party and in the early years, the party was more focused on Whites in particular farmers and agricultural issues while the Republican Party was the party of African Americans. The Democratic Party controlled all the southern states and eventually captured a large part of the Northern States. The Democratic Party didn’t support Civil Rights as opposed to the Republican Party and they did everything they could to keep from approving legislation for Civil Rights. However, it was Lyndon B. Johnson’s desire and approval of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that led a great number of African Americans to pledge their allegiance to the Democratic

The college students tried to get enough voters to put African Americans into the governing house of congress. They educated voters and formed a party for those people in Mississippi. “The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party waited in the wings. The MFDP’s bold challenge at the Democratic National Convention was still seven weeks away. To unseat Mississippi’s all-white delegation, Freedom Democrats would need as many registration forms as possible for their parallel party”(Watson

There many methods employed to disfranchise black voters. During the late 1970, southern Democrats created ways to weaken black political power through violence and intimidation. In this course of terror, black people were terrified and discouraged thus causing them to stop voting. Numerous white property owners would at times threaten or entice black sharecroppers and renters not to vote or vote in favor of their candidates. According to Hine, Hine, and Harrold (2014) Thomas E. Miller, a black congressional representative ran for reelection and won however, he was charged with illegal ballots and declared the loser.