Main Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)

Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)

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In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. Soon after the United States' segregated military defeated a racist regime in World War II, American racism was a major concern of U.S. allies, a chief Soviet propaganda theme, and an obstacle to American Cold War goals throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Each lynching harmed foreign relations, and "the Negro problem" became. Read more...
Request Code : ZLIBIO785574
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Year:
2000
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
343
ISBN 10:
1400831075
ISBN 13:
9781400831074
ISBN:
0-691-01661-5,9780691016610,9781400831074,1400831075

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