Part of the idea of "If Baseball Integrated Early"'s history analogue is to go into greater detail on how the earlier end to the Civil War, much more reconciliation than Reconstruction, and especially baseball integrated fromt he start, leads to slow integration in the 1920s.
This calls for a Truman-espue president to win the 1912 election. I think butterflies can easily allow Oscar Underwood to be the man, seeing as how he was willing to risk his political career to come out against lynching in OTL. In a South where segregation is much more de facto than de jurie (some laws, like the one that led to Plessy v. Ferguson, never even get passed in TTL), he may at least grow to be willing to nudge thigns a little bit, and eventually integrate the military. After all, Truman wasn't a virulent integrationist by any means. For Underwood to be the ATL Truman is at least possible, if not wildly plausible.
The part of this challenge I'm concerned with is the cabinet. I'm looking through the membes of Wilson's, and it's like Lincoln's lines to Couch/Reynolds/Meade after the Union wins Chancellorsville and Spotsylvania in my TL. He wires, "Take what McClellan did there, and do the ooposite with almost all of it!" Instead, here, it's, "Take what Wilson did/who he chose and do the opposite."
Because baseball players are the same (who wants to read about what imaginary players did - people want to know how Satchel Paige and Dizzy Dean got along, etc.), I'm using people who were born in OTl as much as possible. I've allowed myself 2 fictional people per cabinet here. There's a few Union soldiers and a couple Confederate ones who I show interacting, and it's plausible one of the Southerners could end up in Underwood's cabinet. but, who else is there?
Or, would Underwood feel forced to appoint all Northerners?
Interestingly, I've butterflied away "Birth of a Nation" ("Founding of a Nation" does get made and lionizes General Lee for helping to win th4e peace to the point where he's raised to almost mythic levels, and the rumor comes athat he was denied the 1868 nomination by Grant, even though he never sought the office - typical Hollywood history changing early). But, I also seem able to butterfly away a murder trial in georgia which set off some of the problems that led to the Klan in OTL, as well.
there will, of course, be problems in these 1910s and 1920s, sort of a 1960s Lite, even with the slow integration which ends up complete after WW II with soldiers coming home after fighting together. However, if anyone has any ideas on who might land certain jobs, it would be helpful. I guess not every Wilson cabinet member was totally racist. But, pretty many seemed to be.
Thanks in advance.
This calls for a Truman-espue president to win the 1912 election. I think butterflies can easily allow Oscar Underwood to be the man, seeing as how he was willing to risk his political career to come out against lynching in OTL. In a South where segregation is much more de facto than de jurie (some laws, like the one that led to Plessy v. Ferguson, never even get passed in TTL), he may at least grow to be willing to nudge thigns a little bit, and eventually integrate the military. After all, Truman wasn't a virulent integrationist by any means. For Underwood to be the ATL Truman is at least possible, if not wildly plausible.
The part of this challenge I'm concerned with is the cabinet. I'm looking through the membes of Wilson's, and it's like Lincoln's lines to Couch/Reynolds/Meade after the Union wins Chancellorsville and Spotsylvania in my TL. He wires, "Take what McClellan did there, and do the ooposite with almost all of it!" Instead, here, it's, "Take what Wilson did/who he chose and do the opposite."
Because baseball players are the same (who wants to read about what imaginary players did - people want to know how Satchel Paige and Dizzy Dean got along, etc.), I'm using people who were born in OTl as much as possible. I've allowed myself 2 fictional people per cabinet here. There's a few Union soldiers and a couple Confederate ones who I show interacting, and it's plausible one of the Southerners could end up in Underwood's cabinet. but, who else is there?
Or, would Underwood feel forced to appoint all Northerners?
Interestingly, I've butterflied away "Birth of a Nation" ("Founding of a Nation" does get made and lionizes General Lee for helping to win th4e peace to the point where he's raised to almost mythic levels, and the rumor comes athat he was denied the 1868 nomination by Grant, even though he never sought the office - typical Hollywood history changing early). But, I also seem able to butterfly away a murder trial in georgia which set off some of the problems that led to the Klan in OTL, as well.
there will, of course, be problems in these 1910s and 1920s, sort of a 1960s Lite, even with the slow integration which ends up complete after WW II with soldiers coming home after fighting together. However, if anyone has any ideas on who might land certain jobs, it would be helpful. I guess not every Wilson cabinet member was totally racist. But, pretty many seemed to be.
Thanks in advance.