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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777870603321

Autore

Dowdy G. Wayne

Titolo

Mayor Crump don't like it [[electronic resource] ] : machine politics in Memphis / / G. Wayne Dowdy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2006

ISBN

1-283-60844-8

9786613920898

1-60473-076-5

1-4294-6063-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Disciplina

976.8/19053092

B

Soggetti

Mayors - Tennessee - Memphis

Politics, Practical - Tennessee - Memphis - History - 20th century

African Americans - Tennessee - Memphis - Politics and government - 20th century

Legislators - United States

Memphis (Tenn.) Politics and government 20th century

Memphis (Tenn.) Race relations History 20th century

Memphis (Tenn.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-148) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A business government by a business man -- The black flag of machine politics -- The people have made their statement -- A good Tammany Hall Tennessean -- The honor of having no opposition -- God bless you, boss.

Sommario/riassunto

In the 1930's thousands of African Americans abandoned their long-standing allegiance to the party of Abraham Lincoln and began voting for Democratic Party candidates. This new voting pattern remapped the nation's political landscape and altered the relationship between citizen and government. One of the forgotten builders of this modern Democratic Party was Memphis mayor and congressman Edward Hull Crump (1874-1954). Crump created a biracial, multiethnic coalition



within the segregated South that transformed the Mississippi Delta's largest city into a modern southern metropolis. Crump expanded