Franklin D Roosevelt presidency (jan 1, 1933 – jan 12, 1945)
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Roosevelt's New Deal ensured that black and white received aid without discrimination.New Deal disproportionately affected.
Roosevelt refused to consider proposing a law to make lynching a federal crime, though he did refer to it publicly as 'a vile form of public murder.' Du Bois thought this was significant as he was the first president to publicly condemn lynching. However, this condemnation did not translate into action because he needed the support of the southern Democrats to push his New Deal legislation through Congress and needed the support of the Southern Democrats to do so.
This is evidence of a sympathetic president but the limitations of his help given the context of the time
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jan 1, 1933
jan 12, 1945
~ 12 years