Cold War Civil Rights : : Race and the Image of American Democracy / / Mary L. Dudziak.
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'...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 16 halftones. 1 map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface to the 2011 Edition
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1. Coming to Terms with Cold War Civil Rights
- CHAPTER 2. Telling Stories about Race and Democracy
- CHAPTER 3. Fighting the Cold War with Civil Rights Reform
- CHAPTER 4. Holding the Line in Little Rock
- CHAPTER 5. Losing Control in Camelot
- CHAPTER 6. Shifting the Focus of America's Image Abroad
- CONCLUSION
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index