Preface : A personal note -- Part One. Introduction : The negro in the New Deal era / Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. -- Race relations in the United States, 1917-1947 / W.E.B. DuBois -- Part Two. White action : My secret talks with FDR / Mary McLeod Bethune -- The secret papers of FDR / Allan Morrison -- The Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] and the negro / John A. Salmond -- Supreme Court behavior in racial exclusion cases, 1935-1960 / S. Sidney Ulmer -- The attitudes of American protestantism toward the negro, 1919-1939 / Robert Moats Miller -- Organized labor and negro workers / Herbert R. Northrup -- The decade of hope / Clark Foreman -- Struggles of the thirties [1930s] in the South / John Williams -- Part Three. Black reaction : The NAACP and a federal anti-lynching bill, 1934-1940 / Robert L. Zangrando -- The genesis of the modern movement for equal rights in South Carolina, 1930-1939 / Erwin D. Hoffman -- Negro protest at the Chicago World's Fair, 1933-1934 / August Meier and Elliot M. Rudwick -- Robert Lee Vann, Democrat or Republican : An exponent of loose-leaf politics / James H. Brewer -- The Chicago negro voter and the Democratic consensus : A case study, 1918-1936 / John M. Allswang -- Cincinnati negroes and presidential politics / Ernest M. Collins -- Part Four. Black and white activists : The NAACP and the Communist Party : The Scottsboro rape cases, 1931-1932 / Hugh T. Murray, Jr. -- Intellectuals in social and racial movements / Wilson Record -- Part Five. World War II and the negro : The 'forgotten years' of the negro revolution / Richard M. Dalfiume