| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Lincoln's Lost Legacy: The Republican Party and the African American Vote, 1928–1952. By Simon Topping. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xii, 309 pp. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8130-3228-3.)
In Lincoln's Lost Legacy, Simon Topping considers how the Republican party, once the party of emancipation, so thoroughly lost its civil rights legacy. He examines the period from the 1920s to 1952 and sketches out a story that is more of neglect, apathy, and political incompetence than of outright racial hostility. He also corrects assumptions about when, how, and why the black exodus from the Republican party occurred.	1
In essence, some Republican leaders recognized the importance of black voters and advocated for issues such as antilynching statutes, the removal of poll taxes, and fair employment regulation. However, other factions within the party were not so convinced. Herbert Hoover, for example, excelled at alienating black citizens. After gaining the presidency in 1928, Hoover purged the southern gop of black politicians under the guise of anticorruption reform. Those actions and others helped politicize black voters against the gop well before the pivotal presidential election of 1936.	. . .

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