The South and the New Deal

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 education level the lowest, and its laws and social mores the most racially slanted. Roosevelt's New Deal effected significant changes on the southern landscape, challenging many traditions and laying the foundations for subsequent alterations in the southern way of life. In The South and the New Deal, Roger Biles examines the New D

Author: Roger Biles
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.04w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780813191690
ISBN10: 0813191696
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- History | United States | 20th Century
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General

About the Author

Roger Biles, professor of history at Illinois State University, is the author of several books, including Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago.

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