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Robert Clifton Weaver: “The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts”

( 1935 ) Commentary by Karen Linkletter, California State University, Fullerton

Further Reading

Articles

Hill, Walter B., Jr. “Finding a Place for the Negro: Robert C. Weaver and the Groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement.” Prologue 37, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 42–51.

Books

Kirby, John B. Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era: Liberalism and Race. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980.
Pritchett, Wendell E. Robert C. Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Sullivan, Patricia. Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Web Sites

“African Americans.” New Deal Network Web site. http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/browse.cfm?MainCatID=40.
“‘Please Help Us Mr. President’: Black Americans Write to FDR.” History Matters Web site. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/137/.

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African Americans living in the slums of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, during the era of the New Deal (Library of Congress)

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