Can Trump Bring Black Voters Back to the GOP?By E.W. JacksonAmericans of African descent voted overwhelmingly Republican from the end of the Civil War to the 1930s, but they became almost totally Democrat by the 1970s. No single event brought about this tectonic shift, but the change in black voting patterns began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. During the Depression, Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) gave starving men work, food, and shelter. My father, a black American, lived and worked in a CCC camp for six months and he was forever grateful.
As a result, he became a passionate Democrat and disdained the Republican Party as the exclusive club of the heartless rich. When Truman became president, he ended racial segregation in the military, furthering the image of Democrats as the party of compassion and justice.
Then came John Kennedy, the inspiring symbol of the future. His famous call to Coretta Scott King while her husband was held in a Georgia jail created an emotional bond with black voters. Most historians agree that Pres. Kennedy was reticent at best, fearing that he would alienate Southern Democrats. Nevertheless, he made the call and reinforced the idea that Democrats care and Republicans do not. That single gesture caused Martin Luther King, Sr. ("Daddy King") to switch his support from Nixon to Kennedy, and many black voters did the same.
After the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Johnson – the former segregationist known to use the N-word in private – became the public champion of Civil Rights.
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