9780893416843 - From the Deck to the Sea: Blacks and the Republican Party von Rees, Matthew (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xxix, [1], 454, [4] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Sticker residue on front cover. No Dust Jacket. Foreword by Tony Brown. This is not a book about black Republicans. It is a book about the historical relationship between blacks and the Republican Party. This relationship began in 1854, the year the party was founded to prevent the extension of slavery,and reached its high point in the 1860s, when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and self-styled Radical Republicans labored in Congress to give blacks citizenship and voting rights. For the next seventy-five years, nearly every black who voted in local, state and national elections voted Republican. The book addresses the question of why the relationship between blacks and the GOP had soured beginning in 1936, and all be ended by 1964.