Lincoln's Lost Legacy
The Republican Party and the African American Vote, 1928-1952
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10026735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer E Brooks (Auburn University, corresponding author), Simon Topping (0000-0002-6368-6957, Auburn University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 262 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/27694838 |
| OpenAlex | W1968381950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In Lincoln's Lost Legacy, Simon Topping considers how the Republican party, once the party of emancipation, so thoroughly lost its civil rights legacy. He examines the period from the 1920s to 1952 and sketches out a story that is more of neglect, apathy, and political incompetence than of outright racial hostility. He also corrects assumptions about when, how, and why the black exodus from the Republican party occurred. In essence, some Republican leaders recognized the importance of black voters and advocated for issues such as antilynching statutes, the removal of poll taxes, and fair employment regulation. However, other factions within the party were not so convinced. Herbert Hoover, for example, excelled at alienating black citizens. After gaining the presidency in 1928, Hoover purged the southern gop of black politicians under the guise of anticorruption reform. Those actions and others helped politicize black voters against the gop well before the pivotal presidential election of 1936
Communism · Emancipation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Presidency · Presidential system · Racial equality · Realigning election · Socialism · Sociology · Statute · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |