Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, 25th Anniversary Edition

by Mary L. Dudziak

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How the fight for civil rights in America became an important front in the Cold War

In 1958, an African American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing less than two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Soon...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691274347

ISBN13:9780691274348

Release Date:June 2025

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:360 Pages

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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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