Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-260) and index.
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Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Stephen A. Douglas sow the seeds of civil war -- Andrew Johnson : the Democrat who tried to wreck reconstruction and paved the way for Jim Crow -- Ben Tillman, Cole Blease, and James F. Byrnes : Democrats of South Carolina -- Tom Watson, Hoke Smith, Eugene Talmadge, and Richard B. Russell : Democrats of Georgia -- James Vardaman and Theodore Bilbo : Democrats of Mississippi -- Woodrow Wilson : reactionary progressive -- Franklin D. Roosevelt : insensitive liberal -- Harry S. Truman : unsung civil rights hero -- Democrats jump on the civil rights bandwagon -- Since the Civil Rights Act : a racial double standard?
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Sheds new light on the racist history of the Democratic Party, from Woodrow Wilson's segregation of the federal civil service and Franklin Roosevelt's appointment of an ex-member of the KKK to the Supreme Court, to Robert Byrd's past membership in the KKK.