 I've got to get legislation passed by Congress to save America. The Southerners by reason of the seniority rule in Congress are chairmen or occupy strategic places on most of the Senate and House committees. If I come out for the anti-lynching bill now,...  The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia - Pàgina 29editat per - 2001 - 628 pàginesPrevisualització limitada - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Nancy Joan Weiss - 1983 - 333 pàgines
...rule in Congress are chairmen or occupy strategic places on most of the Senate and House committees. If I come out for the antilynching bill now, they...America from collapsing. I just can't take that risk.' "31 The southern leadership in Congress: here was the explanation Roosevelt always resorted to whenever... | |
 | Walter A. Jackson - 1994 - 472 pàgines
...rule in Congress are chairman or occupy strategic places on most of the Senate and House committees. If I come out for the antilynching bill now, they will block every bill 1 ask Congress to pass to keep America from collapsing. I just can't take that risk."34 In 1937, after... | |
 | Bruce J. Schulman - 1991 - 352 pàgines
...timidity to NAACP Secretary Walter White. "If I come out for an antilynching bill now," Roosevelt argued, "they will block every bill I ask Congress to pass...America from collapsing. I just can't take that risk." Certainly, Roosevelt strongly criticized the practice of lynching, as did every one of the southern... | |
 | Lee D. Baker - 1998 - 325 pàgines
...rule in Congress are chairmen or occupy strategic places on most of the Senate and House committees. If I come out for the anti-lynching bill now, they...to keep America from collapsing. I just can't take the risk."11 The New Deal seemed more and more like a raw deal for African Americans. If African Americans... | |
 | Philip A. Klinkner, Rogers M. Smith - 1999 - 417 pàgines
...chairmen or occupy strategic places on most of the Senate and House committees. If I come out for that anti-lynching bill now, they will block every bill...keep America from collapsing. I just can't take that risk."62 Even when New Dealers did pay attention to race, they did so only within carefully circumscribed... | |
 | Nancy Beck Young, William D. Pederson, Byron W. Daynes - 2001 - 191 pàgines
...rule in Congress, are chairmen or occupy strategic places on most of the Senate and House committees. If I come out for the antilynching bill now, they...every bill I ask Congress to pass to keep America from collapsing."56 Of course, as the Democratic majority eroded in 193 8 and, particularly, in 1942, the... | |
 | Kari A. Frederickson - 2001 - 311 pàgines
...on most of the Senate and House committees," Roosevelt explained to NAACP national secretary Walter White. "If I come out for the anti-lynching bill now,...keep America from collapsing. I just can't take that risk."4 African Americans naturally hoped that the programs of the New Deal would be constructed in... | |
 | Phillip Douglas Howerton - 2019 - 135 pàgines
...rule in Congress are chairmen or occupy strategic places on most of the Senate and House committees. If I come out for the anti-lynching bill now, they...keep America from collapsing. I just can't take that risk."39 Still, the president's patience was not unlimited and, following his triumphant reelection... | |
 | Thomas R. Hietala - 2002 - 375 pàgines
...rule in Congress are chairmen or occupy strategic places on most of the Senate and House committees. If I come out for the anti-lynching bill now, they...America from collapsing. I just can't take that risk. White understood Roosevelt's dilemma but still regretted his course. Roosevelt always changed the subject,... | |
 | James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn - 2001 - 678 pàgines
...out laughing. Then he got serious. "If I come out for the anti-lynching bill now," southerners would "block every bill I ask Congress to pass to keep America from collapsing. I just can't take that risk." Indeed, southern senators managed that spring to keep the bill from coming to a vote. And though the... | |
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