AMH-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Strom Thurmond, List Of Captive Orcas, Southern Democrats
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Tru(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s ba(cid:272)kgrou(cid:374)d: son of a missouri farmer, did(cid:374)"t graduate (cid:272)ollege, army in wwi, everyone, including himself, is surprised he gets into politics. Racial policies: sympathetic to african americans in general, horrified to see the treatment of blacks who served in the military. Especially considering many of them died in wwii: truman desegregated the military. It takes some time to get compliance from all branches of military: proposes a series of legislation to congress regarding race. Asks them to pass an anti-lynching law. Asks congress to pass a bill that would ban segregation in public transportation. None of these actually go through they die in congress: truman does much better than fdr at helping african americans. Fdr hesitant to piss off southern democrats. Election of 1948: outher(cid:374) de(cid:373)o(cid:272)rats (cid:271)reak off a(cid:374)d for(cid:373) separate part(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t like poli(cid:272)ies. Tates" rights is(cid:374)"t (cid:374)e(cid:449), (cid:271)ut it is i(cid:374) ter(cid:373)s of ra(cid:272)e: dixiecrats nominate strom thurmond.
