Days of Hope

Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era

By: Patricia Sullivan

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Paperback | 22 April 1996

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In the 1930s and 1940s, a loose alliance of blacks and whites, individuals and organizations, came together to offer a radical alternative to southern conservative politics. In Days of Hope, Patricia Sullivan traces the rise and fall of this movement. Using oral interviews with participants in this movement as well as documentary sources, she demonstrates that the New Deal era inspired a coalition of liberals, black activists, labor organizers, and Communist Party workers who sought to secure the New Deal's social and economic reforms by broadening the base of political participation in the South. From its origins in a nationwide campaign to abolish the poll tax, the initiative to expand democracy in the South developed into a regional drive to register voters and elect liberals to Congress. The NAACP, the CIO Political Action Committee, and the Southern Conference for Human Welfare coordinated this effort, which combined local activism with national strategic planning. Although it dramatically increased black voter registration and led to some electoral successes, the movement ultimately faltered, according to Sullivan, because the anti-Communist fervor of the Cold War and a militant backlash from segregationists fractured the coalition and marginalized southern radicals. Nevertheless, the story of this campaign invites a fuller consideration of the possibilities and constraints that have shaped the struggle for racial democracy in America since the 1930s.

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"Days of Hope" is a graceful addition to New Deal, southern, and civil rights historiography."American Studies" ""Days of Hope" is a graceful addition to New Deal, southern, and civil rights historiography."American Studies"" "Days of Hope" does much to deepen our understanding of the civil rights movement and the New Deal."Nation" Sullivan's book is a compelling challenge to easy generalizations about the Solid South."Southern Changes" A first-rate narrative of New Deal liberalism and its aftermath from 1933 to 1948. "Alabama Review" A splendid book."Journal of American History"

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Introduction	p. 1
On the Eve of the New Deal	p. 11
Challenge to the Solid South: The Politics of New Deal Reform, 1933-1938	p. 41
Southern Seeds of Change, 1931-1938	p. 69
Whose South?: Wartime Battles on Capitol Hill	p. 103
War, Race, and Democracy: The South in Transition	p. 133
Democrats at the Crossroads, 1944	p. 169
Organizing the Southern Movement: Voter Registration and Political Action, 1945-1946	p. 193
The Closing Circle of Democratic Party Politics: Breakup of the New Deal Coalition	p. 221
Epilogue	p. 249
Bibliography	p. 303
Index	p. 317
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