Civil Rights - FP3 - Political Progress

Question 1

Political - Overall

Answer 1

1932 of 15 AA electoral districts - Roosevelt only won 4; 1940 he won all 15
1932 70% repub, 1936 73% Dem

Question 2

Changing AA voters

Answer 2

• Benefits from New Deal - black employees in federal from 50,000 in 1932, to 150,000 1941
  Dems respond to growing importance of black vote
  Support of Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 3

Before 1933

Answer 3

Link with Lincolm, Freedman’s Bureau, 14th and 25th and reconstruction = initial Repub support
1928 presendential election - Smith attempts to win black vote Chicago 1920-11% Dem, 1924 10%, 1928, 27%

Question 4

1932 Elections

Answer 4

Racical social and economic programmes of New Deal attract AA in North
1934 Congressionals - Chacago Illinois 1st District black Dem Mitchell defeated black Repub De Priest to become 1st black Dem elected to Congress

Question 5

Breakthrough 1936 Elections

Answer 5

1936 30 AA delegates to the Dem convention
New Deal = beginning of consistent Dem voting