Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955

by Carol Anderson

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As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, the NAACP and African-American leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in the United States. The prize they sought was not civil rights, but human rights. Only the human rights lexicon, shaped by the Holocaust and articulated by the United Nations, contained the language...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521531586

ISBN13:9780521531580

Release Date:April 2003

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:318 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"

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20th Century African-American Studies History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Textbooks

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