Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780813191690
Pub Date: 24 Feb 1994
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Series: New Perspectives on the South
Description:
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was unmistakably the most disadvantaged part of the nation. The region's economy was the weakest, its educational level the lowest, its politics the most rigid, and its laws and social mores the most racially slanted.