Theodore Roosevelt and Civil Rights
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 07:07:17
From: Lewie Reece
Subject: Query: Theodore Roosevelt and Civil Rights
Dear Fellow Members of H-South:
I'm a PHD Student in History at Bowling Green State University who is writing about the disfranchisement of African-Americans in South Carolina. This semester I have been examining court challenges to these laws, and have learned that Theodore Roosevelt's administrations approach to these problems was far more complex than I had originally thought. I would be interested to learn more abot how the Roosevelt administration approached peonage, segregation, Jim Crow cars, and disfranchisement. I've read Gatewood, Schmidt, Novak, and Daniel; but I would like to learn more. I would also be very interested if someone could tell me more about Charles Bonaparte and William Moody, who were Roosevelt's principal attornies. If anyone has any suggestions for further reading, or knows of some manuscript collections, I would be very grateful if you would let me know.
Best Wishes,
Lewie Reece
Department of History
Bowling Green State University
lreece@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 04:29:16
From: Michael Chesson
Subject: Re: Query: Theodore Roosevelt and Civil Rights--two replies
I'd check out TR's relationship with Giles B. Jackson, a local black businessman, booster, and entrepreneur in turn-of-the-century Richmond.
Michael Chesson, U/Mass-Boston
omohundro@aol.com
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:53:29
From: Leonard Teel
Subject: Re: Query: Theodore Roosevelt and Civil Rights--2 replies
For more reading, try Gabriel Kolko's "The Triumph of Conservatism" for the view that the bottom line of the Teddy Roosevelt era was not the great liberal triumph for society.
Leonard Teel
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 08:53:29
From: Stephen Lowe
Subject: Re: Query: Theodore Roosevelt and Civil Rights--2 replies
Adding to Diana O'Neal's excellent list of sources for the history of black people in late nineteenth-century S.C., I would suggest anyone concerned to look at Francis Butler Simkins' biography of Ben Tillman, _Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian_. In addition to attributing much of "the modern reaction against the Negro" to Tillman, Simkins also covers Tillman's break with T.R. over "the eternal Negro question."
Tangentially, if anyone is aware of attempts to engage the national government in the struggle for voting rights through the federal courts in S.C. prior to 1942, I would be grateful to hear from you.
Stephen Lowe
Department of History
Michigan State University
lowestep@pilot.msu.edu
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