From Selma to Moscow : : How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy / / Sarah B. Snyder.

The 1960s marked a transformation of human rights activism in the United States. At a time of increased concern for the rights of their fellow citizens-civil and political rights, as well as the social and economic rights that Great Society programs sought to secure-many Americans saw inconsistencie...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 13 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Human Rights Activism Directed Across the Iron Curtain
  • Chapter Two. A Double Standard Abroad and at Home? Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence
  • Chapter Three. Causing Us "Real Trouble": The 1967 Coup in Greece
  • Chapter Four. Does the United States Stand for Something? Human Rights in South Korea
  • Chapter Five. Translating Human Rights into the Language of Washington: American Activism in the Wake of the Coup in Chile
  • Chapter Six. "A Call for U.S. Leadership": Congressional Activism on Human Rights
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX