2 chapters across the catalog
Howard University professor Dr. Greg Carr discusses Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a candidate for the greatest president despite the New Deal's exclusion of black people from the GI Bill and mortgages. This logic is criticized as a "red vs blue" bias that excuses racism in Democratic icons while condemning it in others.
Eugene Burnett, a black World War II veteran, was denied the opportunity to buy a home in Levittown despite his service. Salesmen explicitly told him that the owners had not yet decided to sell to "Negroes." This highlights how black GIs were excluded from the post-war economic boom and the benefits of the GI Bill.
