Window on Freedom
Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Brenda Gayle Plummer
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Window on Freedom
Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Brenda Gayle Plummer
About This Book
The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once U.S. policy makers--influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership--had signed such documents as the United Nations charter, domestic calls for change could be based squarely on the moral authority of doctrines the United States endorsed abroad. This is one of the many fascinating links between racial politics and international affairs explored in Window on Freedom. Broad in chronological scope and topical diversity, the ten original essays presented here demonstrate how the roots of U.S. foreign policy have been embedded in social, economic, and cultural factors of domestic as well as foreign origin. They argue persuasively that the campaign to realize full civil rights for racial and ethnic minorities in America is best understood in the context of competitive international relations. The contributors are Carol Anderson, Donald R. Culverson, Mary L. Dudziak, Cary Fraser, Gerald Horne, Michael Krenn, Paul Gordon Lauren, Thomas Noer, Lorena Oropeza, and Brenda Gayle Plummer.
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- Aboriginal peoples, 35
- Acheson, Dean, 55ā57, 154
- Adoption, U.S. practices regarding, 78, 79ā81, 83
- Affirmative action, 59
- Afghanistan, 8
- Africa Information Service, 228
- African Americans: at turn of twentieth century, 49, 50;
- as soldiers, 49, 67ā86;
- as soldiersā wives, 78ā79;
- as voters, 163;
- and foreign affairs, 164, 173, 230;
- as dockworkers, 229
- African American Scholars Council, 228
- African Heritage Studies Association, 229
- African Jazz Artist Society and Studies (AJASS), 233
- African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC), 229, 231
- African states, response to U.S. civil rights reform, 189ā91
- African studies, 224, 225
- Afro-Asian conference. See Bandung Conference
- Alexander, Ruth, 144
- Algerian Revolution, 55
- Alianza Federal de Mercedes Reales, 208, 209
- All-African Peoplesā Conference, 32
- American G.I. Forum, 205, 207, 209, 210
- American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA), 173
- American West, history of, 45ā47
- Angola, 145, 228, 229, 231
- Annan, William E., 165
- Anti-Americanism, 59
- Antiapartheid activism, 1, 13, 28ā29, 221ā35;
- and divestment, 226, 231, 235;
- and Polaroid workers, 228;
- and action against Rhodesian chrome, 229;
- and entertainment industry, 233, 234
- Anticommunism, 107, 128ā29;
- and colonialism, 54;
- in Japan, 57ā58;
- and segregationists, 141, 145, 147ā52, 155, 157
- Arab League, 121, 123
- Aryan Nation, 158
- AsociaciĆ³n Nacional MĆ©xico-Americana (ANMA), 206
- Atlanta Constitution, 98
- AztlƔn, 12, 201, 213, 216
- Baghdad Pact, 116, 126, 128
- Baker, Josephine, 32
- Baker, Newton D., 6
- Baltimore Afro-American, 83, 166, 174
- Bandung Conference, 10, 12, 32, 115ā37
- Barnett, Ross, 152
- Bean, Louis, 158
- Beaumont...