Cover of Farewell to the party of Lincoln

Farewell to the party of Lincoln

by Nancy Joan Weiss Malkiel

1983 333 pages eng

This book examines a remarkable political phenomenon -- the dramatic shift of black voters from the Republican to the Democratic party in the 1930s, a shift all the more striking in light of the Democrats' indifference to racial concerns. Nancy J. Weiss shows that blacks became Democrats in response…

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