[MuttTheHoople]

Another reason blacks went for Roosevelt, was that in 1928 Herbert Hoover promised blacks that Civil Rights would be at the forefront of his administration. That included federal anti-lynching laws, etc. However, Hoover didn't follow through on these promises and when FDR promised the New Deal black voters flocked to him.

Unfortunately for blacks, most of the jobs went to white workers, especially in the South where Democrats ruled blacks by terror.

[fieldmarshaldj]

But they didn’t go to FDR until 1936. Hoover would’ve had trouble getting such laws through the 1929-30 Congress, and after the midterms (which initially had the GOP with a narrow majority, until a rash of Republican deaths including that of Speaker Longworth) resulted in the Dems taking control, utterly impossible.