Title: Cold War Civil Rights
First published: 2000
Description: "In what may be the best analysis of how international relations affected any domestic issue, Mary Dudziak interprets postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature. She argues that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. Civil rights activists gained tremendous advantage as the government sought to polish its international image. But improving the nation's reputation did not always require real change.

This focus on image rather than substance - combined with constraints on McCarthy-era political activism and the triumph of law-and-order rhetoric - limited the nature and extent of progress.".

"Archival information, much of it newly available, supports Dudziak's argument that civil rights was Cold War policy.

But the story is also one of people: an African-American veteran of World War II lynched in Georgia; an attorney general flooded by civil rights petitions from abroad; the teenagers who desegregated Little Rock's Central High; African diplomats denied restaurant service; black artists living in Europe and supporting the civil rights movement from overseas; conservative politicians viewing desegregation as a communist plot; and civil rights leaders who saw their struggle eclipsed by Vietnam."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Political aspects, African Americans, Politics and government, Race relations, Cold War, Democracy, Social aspects, Civil rights, Racism, Legal status, laws, Social aspects of Cold War, Political aspects of Racism, Racisme, Ethnische Beziehungen, Aspect social, Politique et gouvernement, Statut juridique, Guerre froide, Burgerrechten, Droits, Noirs americains, Cold War (1945-1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01754978, Relations raciales, Rassenverhoudingen, Histoire, Aspect politique, Democratie, Droit, Koude Oorlog, Demokratie, Ost-West-Konflikt, Relations interethniques, International relations, moral and ethical aspects, United states, foreign relations, 1945-1989, Civil rights, united states, Civil rights movements, united states, United states, race relations, Minorities, united states, social conditions, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989, Desegregation, African americans, civil rights, African americans, legal status, laws, etc., African americans, history, United states, history, 20th century
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century, 1945-1989
LC classification: E185.61 .D85 2000