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In 1932 most African Americans who were able to vote cast their ballots for Republicans, as they had since the Civil War. Blacks voted for the Republi-, can Party because, as the party of Abraham Lincoln, it had freed them from slavery and supported them during the Reconstruction period. By 1936, however, more than 90 percent were voting the Democratic ticket. President Roosevelt and the New Deal had won their allegiance. (About the same percentage of African Americans vote Democratic in the 1990s.)
Though Roosevelt's support of civil rights for African Americans was weak and halting, they appreciated what he had done. Roosevelt appointed African Americans to important positions within his administration, and one group of African American men and women — led by Mary McLeod Bethune, William Hastie, and Robert Weaver— became known as the "Black Cabinet." The African American community...
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