The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 450 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-538241-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press
It is well known that World War II gave rise to human rights rhetoric, discredited a racist regime abroad, and provided new opportunities for African Americans to fight, work, and demand equality at home. It would be all too easy to assume that the war was a key stepping stone to the modern civil rights movement. But the authors show that in reality the momentum for civil rights was not so clear cut, with activists facing setbacks as well as successes and their opponents finding ways to establish more rigid defenses for segregation. While the war set the scene for a mass movement, it also narrowed some of the options for black activists.
Zielgruppe
Students, scholars, and general readers of World War II, African American history, and civil rights
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
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Contributors
Introduction: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement- Kevin M. Kruse and Stephen Tuck
Chapter 1: Freedom to Want: The Federal Government and Politicized Consumption in World War II- James T. Sparrow
Chapter 2: Confronting the Roadblock: Congress, Civil Rights and World War II- Julian E. Zelizer
Chapter 3: Segregation and the City: White Supremacy in Alabama in the Mid-Twentieth Century- J. Mills Thornton III
Chapter 4: Movement Building during the World War II Era: The NAACP's Legal Insurgency in the South- Patricia Sullivan
Chapter 5: Hillburn, Hattiesburg, and Hitler: Wartime Activists Think Globally and Act Locally- Thomas Sugrue
Chapter 6: "You can sing and punch EL but you can't be a soldier or a man": African American Struggles for a New Place in Popular Culture- Stephen Tuck
Chapter 7: "A War for States' Rights": The White Supremacist Vision of Double Victory- Jason Morgan Ward
Chapter 8: The Sexual Politics of Race in WWII America- Jane Dailey
Chapter 9: Civil Rights and World War II in a Global Frame: Shape-shifting Racial Formations and the U.S. Encounter with European and Japanese Colonialism- Penny Von Eschen
Chapter 10: Race, Rights, and Non-Governmental Organizations at the UN San Francisco Conference: A Contested History of "Human Rights. without discrimination"- Elizabeth Borgwardt
Chapter 11: "Did the Battlefield Kill Jim Crow?": The Cold War Military, Civil Rights, and Black Freedom Struggles- Kimberley L. Phillips