How Far the Promised Land? : : World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam /

How Far the Promised Land? : : World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam / / Jonathan Rosenberg.

How Far the Promised Land? explores the relationship between overseas developments and the most important reform movement in modern American history, the struggle for racial justice. Interweaving civil rights history, U.S. foreign relations history, and twentieth-century international history, the b...

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Rosenberg, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION. Color-Conscious Internationalism and the Twentieth-Century Struggle
  • PART I: World War I and the Peace Settlement
  • PRELUDE. "Yours for World Democracy": Journeys to Paris
  • ONE. "Let Us Be True to Our Mission": Race Reform and the World War
  • Two. "The Morning Cometh": The Significance of the Peace
  • PART II: Between the Wars
  • THREE. "From Deep in the Heart of Russia": The Reformers Look Abroad in the 1920s
  • FOUR. "Sounds Suspiciously like Miami": The Turbulent World of the 1930s
  • PART III: From World War II to Vietnam
  • FIVE. "Democracy Should Begin at Home": The Struggle for Equality and the Second World War
  • Six. "To Help Save the World": Seeking Race Reform, 1945-1950
  • SEVEN. "Struggling to Save America": The Reformers and the World of the 1950s
  • EIGHT. "I've Seen the Promised Land": Triumph and Tragedy in the 1960s
  • POSTLUDE. World Affairs and the Domestic Crusade
  • Notes
  • Index

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