Examples of Black Cabinet in the following topics:
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- Many of them belonged to
would be known as the Black Cabinet - a group of black experts and professionals who, analogically to Roosevelt's white advisers who formed his Brain Trust, gathered to advise the president on matters relevant to black communities.
- The Black Cabinet as a body segregated from their white counterparts demonstrates a tragic ambiguity in Roosevelt's approach to African Americans: he did make some effort to improve their situation but the effort was hardly radical and always curbed by racism existing in the American society.
- Around 10% of the youth program beneficiaries were black.
- Despite Roosevelt's refusal to support the black civil rights struggle and the mixed results that the New Deal programs produced for black Americans, many black voters changed their political loyalty and shifted towards Democrats.
- The latter were mostly women, both black and white.
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- Her most publicized act of opposition to segregation was when in 1939 she severed her connection with the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), after the organization banned Marian Anderson, a black opera singer, from performing at the Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. that DAR owned.
- While Eleanor supported other struggles of black communities, this well known episode demonstrates how different her attitude towards African Americans was from that of her husband's.
- She was explicit in her support of civil rights for black Americans, did not hide her agenda from the often critical public eye, challenged her husband's political opponents and allies (especially racist white Southerners), and sought attention for the civil rights cause through relationships and close friendships with black leaders, most notably Mary McLeod Bethune, the founder of the National Council of Negro Women, member of the Black Cabinet, and director of the Division of Negro Affairs at the National Youth Administration. and Walter White, the NAACP's executive secretary and anti-lynching legislation activist.
- Despite the fact that during the post-WWII period black leaders accused Eleanor of giving up on the civil rights struggle, she was an unusual representative of her own class.
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- Despite promises made to black voters during the election of 1912, Woodrow Wilson gave into the demands of white Southern Democrats, fired a number of black Republican politicians, and supported racial segregation.
- While President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, Wilson discouraged black people from applying for admission, preferring to keep the peace among white students rather than face an outcry if black students were admitted.
- Black leaders who supported Wilson were angered when segregationist white Southerners took control of Congress and Wilson appointed many Southerners to his cabinet; Wilson and his cabinet members fired a large number of black Republican office holders in political-appointee positions, though they also appointed a few black Democrats to such posts.
- Wilson’s Southern cabinet members pressed for segregated workplaces, even though federal offices had been integrated since 1863.
- Wilson ignored complaints when his cabinet officials established official segregation in many federal government departments, such as the post office, because of his own firm belief that racial segregation was in the best interests of black and white Americans alike.
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- After the Brownsville Affair, blacks began to turn against Roosevelt.
- A renewed investigation in the early 1970s exonerated the discharged black troops.
- While president of Princeton University, Wilson discouraged blacks from applying for admission, preferring to keep the peace among white students than have black students admitted.
- Wilson ignored complaints that his cabinet officials had established official segregation in most federal government offices and in some departments, for the first time since 1863.
- Wilson and his cabinet members fired many black Republican office holders in political-appointee positions, but also appointed a few black Democrats to such posts.
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- Grant's standards in many of his cabinet appointments were low, leading to widespread charges of corruption.
- Beginning with the Black Friday gold speculation ring in 1869, corruption was uncovered during Grant's two presidential terms in seven federal departments.
- Then, on September 23, 1869 (known infamously as "Black Friday"), the price of gold soared to $160 dollars an ounce.
- He was reluctant to prosecute cabinet members and appointees viewed as "honest" friends, and those who were convicted were set free with presidential pardons after serving a brief time in prison.
- Despite the scandals, by the end of Grant's second term the corruption in the Departments of Interior, Treasury, and Justice were cleaned up by his new cabinet members.
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- Cabinet heads appointed by President Wilson re-segregated restrooms and cafeterias in their buildings.
- All the Southern states (and Oklahoma) used devices to disenfranchise black voters during the Progressive Era.
- A major reason given was that whites routinely purchased black votes to control elections, and it was easier to disenfranchise blacks than to go after powerful white men.
- The new provisions of the state constitutions eliminated black voting by law.
- He benefited by the disenfranchisement of blacks and crippling of the Republican Party in the South.
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- Blacks were still elected to local offices in the 1880s, but the Democrats were passing laws to make voter registration and electoral rules more restrictive, with the result that political participation by most blacks and many poor whites began to decrease.
- In the Jim Crow context, the presidential election of 1912 was steeply slanted against the interests of black Americans.
- Most blacks still lived in the South, where they had been effectively disenfranchised, so they could not vote at all.
- White Americans were effectively excluded from the literacy testing, whereas black Americans were effectively singled out by the law.
- Woodrow Wilson, a southern Democrat and the first southern-born president of the post-Civil War period, appointed southerners to his Cabinet.
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- Black Republicans felt betrayed as they lost power and were disenfranchised in the coming decades.
- The appointment of at least one southern Democrat to Hayes's cabinet.
- In exchange, Democrats would peacefully accept Hayes's presidency and respect the civil rights of black Americans.
- It was also not unusual, nor unexpected, for a president, especially one so narrowly elected, to select a cabinet member favored by the other party.
- Blacks remained involved in Southern politics, particularly in Virginia, which was run by the biracial Readjuster Party.
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- African Americans: Black voters did not support Roosevelt in 1932.
- Historians note, however, that in 1932 black voters supported Hoover not because he had done much for black communities but rather not to support the candidate of the party that had a long history of suppressing African Americans.
- Some also note that Eleanor Roosevelt's efforts to convince her husband to make stronger connections with black communities attracted some black leaders to the Democratic Party.
- By the early 1940s, most black voters supported Democrats although at the time many African Americans continued to be disenfranchised.
- Later, others joined the informal group but different historians label different influential figures as New Dealers, including Roosevelt's cabinet members as well as experts who were not members of the government.
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- Many speculated that Eisenhower privately offered Nixon another position in his cabinet, but in the spring of 1956, Eisenhower publicly announced that Nixon would be his running mate.
- Board of Education decision, he won the support of nearly 40% of black voters.
- He was the last Republican presidential candidate to receive such a level of support from black voters.