Matthew Delmont

Dartmouth Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in History; historian of African-American politics, civil rights, and 20th-century race; author of Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (2022); the wiki cites him as the author of How Jackie Robinson Helped Defeat a Trump-Like Candidate (Atlantic, March 2016), which drew the explicit Goldwater-Trump line via Black Republican memory in real time during the 2016 primary.

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Cross-References

• How Jackie Robinson Helped Defeat a Trump-Like Candidate
• Jackie Robinson
• 1964 Republican National Convention

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