To order images and/or obtain permission to use them commercially, please contact the KSHS Reference Desk at KSHS.reference@ks.gov or 785-272-8681, ext. 117.
For more information see the Copyright and Permission FAQ.
Mark W. W. Baldwin writes to Kansas Governor Andrew Schoeppel This newspaper article, attached to a letter written to Governor Schoeppel, refers to the upcoming of election of 1944 in which Roosevelt won his fourth term as president. The article acknowledges that throughout the depression and early 1940s African Americans voted for Roosevelt despite the fact that he was a Democrat. Republicans, ashamed they had lost the black vote in previous elections, were trying very hard to get it back. In past elections, African Americans tended to vote as a group which made them one of the most important racial voting groups in the country. The black vote in the 1944 election was very influential in reelecting Roosevelt to his fourth term as president, making him the only president to ever serve more than two consecutive terms.
Creator: Baldwin, Mark W. W.
Date: June 4, 1944
Item Number: 215050
Call Number: Governor's Office, Schoeppel, Subject File, Race Relations, Box 56
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 215050
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Schoeppel, Andrew Frank
Date - 1940s - 1944
Government and Politics - Elections
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Democrat
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Republican
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Suffrage - Blacks
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Correspondence
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - clipping
People - African Americans
People - Notable People - Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - New York
Places - Other States - Ohio
Places - Other States - Pennsylvania
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Newspapers - Clippings
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/215050