American Decades
African American and Women Voters in the 1950s
"The Negro Voter: Can He Elect a President?"
Magazine article
By: Theodore White
Date: August 17, 1956
Source: White, Theodore H. "The Negro Voter: Can He Elect a President?" Collier's, August 17, 1956. Available online at http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6331/ (accessed June 18, 2003).
About the Author: Theodore H. White (1915–1986) started his career in journalism by writing for Time magazine. By the mid-1950s, he focused on political coverage for Collier's. After covering the 1956 presidential campaign , he eventually wrote The Making of the President, 1960 (1961). In 1962, the study received the Pulitzer Prize. He wrote subsequent editions of The Making of the President series, covering the 1964, 1968, and 1972 campaigns.
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1950's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia
- Presidential Reactions to Joseph McCarthy
- NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security
- The Korean War
- Statement Upon Sentencing the Rosenbergs
- "'Old Soldiers Never Die'
- Agreements Between the United States and Japan
- "The Checkers Speech"
- Television Campaign Commercials
- "The Row of Dominoes"
- Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem
- Speech by Dwight Eisenhower to the U.S. Congress, February 22, 1955
- African American and Women Voters in the 1950s
- The Little Rock Crisis
- Creation of NASA
- "The Kitchen Debate"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
