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Presidents - Civil Rights

1890 – 1913 Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, T Roosevelt, Taft

Little influence on civil rights

Disenfranchisement against AA voters, not targeted by presidents

Argued states’ rights to deal with civil rights

Laissez faire approach from presidents

1989, Ida B Wells write to McKinley (1897-01) regarding lynching, no cations as states issues

T Roosevelt (01-09) – invited Booker T Washington to white house, symbolic guest

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Little incentive for presidents to act

No federal response to racial violence, lynching, left to states

Slow rate and pace of change

State decisions primarily



1913 – 1933 Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover

Wilson (13-21) – April 2017, said ‘the world must be safe for democracy’, July 1917 parade of 15,000
AA against lynching in retaliation to ‘safe for democracy’

1919 Chicago race riots, AA migration to North cities

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Laisses faire attitude pre wall street crash

Slow rate and pace of change as states decisions



1933 – 1945 FD Roosevelt

Democrat

New deal 1933

AA voters changed from republican to democrat

Symbolic gestures Eleanor Roosevelt

1938, Civil Rights section of justice department

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Slow pace due to cautious approach

Focus on US economy, great depression

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