Thanks to the New Deal, the decade witnessed a historic shift in Black votingpatterns. In the North and West, where they enjoyed the right to vote, Blacks in1934 and 1936 abandoned their allegiance to the party of Lincoln andemancipation in favor of Democrats and the New Deal. But their hopes for broadchanges in the nation’s race system were disappointed. Despite a massivelobbying campaign, southern congressmen prevented passage of a federalantilynching law. FDR offered little support. “I did not choose the tools with whichI must work,” he told Walter White of the NAACP; he would not jeopardize hiseconomic programs by alienating powerful members of Congress. The CCC
This passage means that during the 1930s because of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs many Black voters began switching their political support. Before this, most Black Americans had supported the Republican Party because Abraham Lincoln had ended slavery. But in the 1930s, many Black voters, especially in the North and West where they could vote freely, started supporting the Democratic Party, attracted by the New Deal’s promises of jobs and relief during the Great Depression. However, their hopes for racial equality and civil rights were disappointed. Despite campaigns by civil rights groups pushing for laws against