Roosevelt persuaded the government and the people through word choice, design, and appeal, to declare war against Japan. In his speech entitled the “Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation” – also known as the “Infamy” speech – Franklin D. Currently neutral in regards to the second world war, the United States of America was close to entering the war but was hesitant. His speech consisted of an explanation of what had taken place at Pearl Harbor, evidence that the attack was in fact predetermined, and a request for the United States of America to wage war against Japan. The following day, December 8 th, 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president at the time, gave an address to the distressed nation regarding the attack.
Navy ships, including 8 battleships” (“A Pearl Harbor Fact Sheet”). personnel, including 68 civilians, and destroyed or damaged 19 U.S. The results of the attack were devastating and, according to the National WWII Museum, “killed 2,403 U.S. Pearl Harbor had been attacked by an unforeseen Japanese air raid. In that particular afternoon, all American radio broadcasts were interrupted with important news. Hughes’s style in this poem showed his distinctive merging of traditional verse with black artistic forms like blues and jazz.On the seventh of December, 1941, the lives of many people drastically changed. In Hughes’s “Ballad of Roosevelt,” which appeared in the New Republic in 1934, the poet criticized the unfulfilled promises that FDR had made to the poor. Although he did not join the Communist Party, he spent a year in the Soviet Union and published his works in magazines sympathetic to liberal, socialist, and Communist causes. Langston Hughes, a playwright, poet, and novelist, became a socialist in the 1930s. African Americans who supported left-wing parties, however, were more likely to be critical.
On the other hand, Roosevelt won the hearts and the votes of African Americans in unprecedented numbers. On the one hand, Roosevelt never endorsed anti-lynching legislation he accepted segregation and disenfranchisement and he condoned discrimination against blacks in federally funded relief programs. Roosevelt presents something of a paradox. "The relationship between African Americans and Franklin D.
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