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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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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 ;
73 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 16 halftones. 1 map. |
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