A Really Contested Convention: The 1924 Democratic “Klanbake”

FDR delivers the nominating speech for Alfred E. Smith at the Democratic Convention at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY. June 26, 1924. This speech is often considered FDR's first major gesture of re-entry into national politics after recovering from the onset of polio.

The convention was also notable because hundreds of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan attended as delegates.

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