How to Fix Democracy - Fighting for Equity: African-American struggles in the '20s and '30s | Featuring Jill Watts

Fighting for Equity: African-American struggles in the '20s and '30s | Featuring Jill Watts

11/10/23 • 49 min

Fighting for Equity: African-American struggles in the '20s and '30s.

In this episode, host Andrew Keen talks to Jill Watts author of The Black Cabinet, about the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Jill Watts is an author and a Professor Emeritus of History at California State University San Marcos where she teaches United States social and cultural history, African American history, film history, and digital history.

Fighting for Equity: African-American struggles in the '20s and '30s.

In this episode, host Andrew Keen talks to Jill Watts author of The Black Cabinet, about the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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