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States' Rights Democratic Party (view source)
Revision as of 13:10, May 16, 2023
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By the presidency of Harry Truman following Roosevelt's death, civil rights had already began to take priority among New Deal liberalism. The Fair Employment Practice Committee was enacted by FDR in 1941 to prevent segregationist laws from impeding the war effort, and Truman expediently abandoned his racism on the public level in seeking to strengthen civil rights provisions, all but alienating the old progressive wing of the Southern Democrats.
By the presidency of Harry Truman following Roosevelt's death, civil rights had already began to take priority among New Deal liberalism. The Fair Employment Practice Committee was enacted by FDR in 1941 to prevent segregationist laws from impeding the war effort, and Truman expediently abandoned his racism on the public level in seeking to strengthen civil rights provisions, all but alienating the old progressive wing of the Southern Democrats.
===New Deal===
Although mainstream encyclopedia articles, books, and other various sources portray the Dixiecrat movement as stemming from anti–New Deal sentiment, Glenn Feldman writes that in Alabama, for example, the most virulent racists "could be found on both sides of the New Deal."<ref>Feldman, Glenn (May 31, 2013). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Irony_of_the_Solid_South/lo7-k6uzUDcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bull+connor+new+deal&printsec=frontcover The Irony of the Solid South: Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865–1944]. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 16, 2023.</ref> [[Bull Connor]], later the Birmingham police commissioner known for his violence against civil rights activists including children, was among the ardent supporters of FDR and the New Deal who later joined the SRP, regarding him as a "fine President."<ref>"The Irony of the Solid South," pp. 192–93.</ref>
==Platform<ref name=platform>August 14, 1948. [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/platform-the-states-rights-democratic-party Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party]. ''The American Presidency Project''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>==
==Platform<ref name=platform>August 14, 1948. [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/platform-the-states-rights-democratic-party Platform of the States Rights Democratic Party]. ''The American Presidency Project''. Retrieved May 15, 2023.</ref>==