The Door of Hope: Republican Presidents and the First Southern Strategy, 1877-1933

(University Press of Florida) Frantz looks at how the Republicans, the party of Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, shifted to become the choice of white Southerners who were against the Civil Rights movement. And he explores how the Democrats, the party of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, became the choice for black Southerners. Frantz is an associate professor of history at the University of Indianapolis.