You were pretty young then, you know, just beginning at Florida. Okay,
skipping on a little bit, or in a way, looking back, by say 1940, that's
Roosevelt's third term. He was elected the third time in '40. By then,
whatever indications or feelings that seemed to have developed within
the New Deal or without the New Deal about what it was going to do about
the whole racial issue in the South had kind of settled down to an
answer that said, "Not much." There were very few
people there who stand out now. Aubrey Williams, Will Alexander, a few
others, Southerners, who were influential in any way in the
administration and whatever they were able to accomplish, and there were
some things, but overall, the sense I have is that by the '40's, by the
war, it was fairly clear that the New Deal had not, at least to that
point, gotten around to this issue.