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The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
Maybe someday
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Author:
Jill Watts
Publisher:
Grove Press
Date:
May 12, 2020
The history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and 1940s as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Black Cabinet.
What The Reviewers Say
[Watts] is at her best when she gives a frank accounting of the barriers the Black Cabinet encountered.
Every once in a long while, a book comes along that pulls back the curtain on an unheralded time in America’s civil rights past and leaves one inspired and eager to learn more. The Black Cabinet is an invaluable historical contribution to an overlooked era of American history that had far-reaching impacts for African American civil rights movements still to be born.
Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The Black Cabinet is sprawling and epic, and Watts deftly re-creates whole scenes from archival material. With six main Cabinet characters, several subplots, infighting and at least three presidencies involved, however, it’s a lot to take in.
... meticulously researched and beautifully written.
