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John P. Davis: “A Black Inventory of the New Deal”

( 1935 )

Further Reading

Articles

  • Fishel, Leslie H., Jr. “The Negro in the New Deal Era.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 8, no. 2 (Winter 1964–1965): 111–126.
  • Hamilton, Donna Cooper. “The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and New Deal Reform Legislation: A Dual Agenda.” Social Service Review 68, no. 4 (December 1994): 488–502.

Books

  • Sitkoff, Harvard. A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
  • Sullivan, Patricia. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
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