While historians conclude that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s p…
While historians conclude that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidency was an overwhelming success (he’s generally placed alongside Lincoln and Washington as the greatest American presidents), he had a less-than-stellar record in regard to civil rights, particularly for African Americans. Part of FDR’s poor civil rights record can be owed to . Roosevelt built a coalition which included democrats from this agrarian region where racism was high. He concluded that for any of his programs to be approved, he must avoid alienating these voters, so he largely ignored controversial civil rights issues.