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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: When Black Voters Went Blue (1936) w/ Leah Wright Rigueur
Description: It’s November 3rd. Election Day! On this day in 1936, FDR won his second term for president in a landslide. But it was the first election since the Civil War in which African-American voters voted for Democrats.
Jody and Niki are joined by Leah Wright Rigueur of Brandeis to discuss the shift, and how the election would preview the modern Democratic coalition, and the way in which Republicans would try to seize the Black vote back.
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