The Polarisation Episode
The Last Best Hope?
00:00
The Black Vote - The Party of White Supremacy
By 1900, Republicans didn't need the black vote anymore. Theodore Roosevelt comes in and he has Booker T. Washington to the White House. Pitchfork, Tillman, a South Carolina senator claims they'll have to murder a thousand black men. By 1948, the Democratic Party passes at its convention as civil rights plank. Even though it still is the party of white supremacy in the city.
Transcript
Play full episode
