Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-260) and index.
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Stephen A. Douglas sow the seeds of civil war -- Andrew Johnson : the Democrat who tried to wreck reconstruction and paved the way for Jim Crow -- Ben Tillman, Cole Blease, and James F. Byrnes : Democrats of South Carolina -- Tom Watson, Hoke Smith, Eugene Talmadge, and Richard B. Russell : Democrats of Georgia -- James Vardaman and Theodore Bilbo : Democrats of Mississippi -- Woodrow Wilson : reactionary progressive -- Franklin D. Roosevelt : insensitive liberal -- Harry S. Truman : unsung civil rights hero -- Democrats jump on the civil rights bandwagon -- Since the Civil Rights Act : a racial double standard?