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" Wrong on race : "
Bruce Bartlett.
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BL
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995165
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b749535
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| Main Entry
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Bartlett, Bruce R.,1951-
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Wrong on race : : the Democratic Party's buried past /\ Bruce Bartlett.
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1st ed.
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2008.
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xv, 268 pages ;; 25 cm
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023060062X
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: 9780230600621
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-260) and index.
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| Contents
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Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Stephen A. Douglas sow the seeds of civil war -- Andrew Johnson : the Democrat who tried to wreck reconstruction and paved the way for Jim Crow -- Ben Tillman, Cole Blease, and James F. Byrnes : Democrats of South Carolina -- Tom Watson, Hoke Smith, Eugene Talmadge, and Richard B. Russell : Democrats of Georgia -- James Vardaman and Theodore Bilbo : Democrats of Mississippi -- Woodrow Wilson : reactionary progressive -- Franklin D. Roosevelt : insensitive liberal -- Harry S. Truman : unsung civil rights hero -- Democrats jump on the civil rights bandwagon -- Since the Civil Rights Act : a racial double standard?
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Sheds new light on the racist history of the Democratic Party, from Woodrow Wilson's segregation of the federal civil service and Franklin Roosevelt's appointment of an ex-member of the KKK to the Supreme Court, to Robert Byrd's past membership in the KKK.
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Democratic Party (U.S.)-- History.
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Democratic Party (U.S.)
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Democratic Party, USA
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Politicians-- United States-- History.
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Presidents-- United States-- History.
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Politicians.
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Politics and government
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Politiker
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Presidents.
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Race relations.
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Rassendiskriminierung
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Rassismus
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Politiker.
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United States, Politics and government.
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United States, Race relations.
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United States.
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323.1196/073
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324.2736
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JK2316.B37 2008
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