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15 Pages. Hugo Black was born in Alabama in 1886. After getting a law degree he spent time practicing law and then Black, an active Democrat, was elected to the United States Senate in 1926. Black was known to be a big fan of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. The most interesting thing about this man elected to the Supreme Court was that he once was active in the Ku Klux Klan. Once on the Supreme Court Bench however, Black lost all racist and prejudiced views. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Black, an active Democrat, was elected to the United States Senate in 1926. Black was known to be a big fan of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal.
When Truman appointed Black to the Supreme Court in 1937, it was over the objections of Congress due to "his well-known support for the New Deal and it was claimed
that Roosevelt was attempting to get a majority of justices who would not veto his legislation. Progressives in the Democratic Party were also uneasy about the appointment, as Black had
been for a long-time a member of the Ku Klux Klan" (Biography of Hugo Black PG). Surprisingly enough, although Hugo Black had been an active member of the Ku
Klux Klan, once elected to the Supreme Court he proved himself to be a fair judge and a supporter of civil rights. Racism did not enter into his time
on the bench. TRUMAN AND HUGO BLACK President Truman and Hugo Black were fast friends and yet Black continued to be fair and unwavering in seeing that justice was
always meted out. On the part of Truman, the lesson that was learned from the case of Youngstown Steel v. Sawyer was that even the President of the United
States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered seizure of the nations steel mills in order to
forestall a strike which, he claimed, would have seriously harmed the nation during the Korean conflict" (Anonymous PG). Already in existence was the Taft-Hartley Act, which was instrumental in
authorizing Truman to mandate a "cooling off" (Anonymous PG) period of eighty days as a means by which to avert an imminent strike; however, the particular law was not to
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