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Article: America's glass house: essays on Cold War global politics and the Civil Rights Movement.(Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988)(Book Review)
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- Black Issues Book Review
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- January 1, 2004
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Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
Edited by Brenda Gayle Plummer, The University of North Carolina Press, February 2003 $18.95, ISBN 0-807-85428-X
It is difficult to understand why black protest, as old as the United States itself, finally succeeded in precipitating the Civil Rights Movement in the middle of the 20th century. Window on Freedom brings us one step closer to solving that mystery by drawing together a collection of 10 academic essays on the effects of foreign affairs on the struggle for black political participation. Each piece attempts to explain the role of one of several actors: the U.S. State ...