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Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between overseas developments and the most important reform movement in modern American history, the struggle for racial justice. This book argues that civil rights leaders were interested in the world beyond America and incorporated their understanding of overseas matters into their reform program.
Trade Review"Jonathan Rosenberg, describing 'color-conscious internationalism', demonstrated how the men and women who struggled to win equality for black Americans used world affairs--and especially wars--to advance their cause... Rosenberg does a superb job of analyzing the interplay of world affairs and the quest for racial justice in the United States from 1914 to the 1960s."--Warren I. Cohen, International History Review
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION: Color-Conscious Internationalism and the Twentieth-Century Struggle 1 PART I: World War I and the Peace Settlement PRELUDE: "Yours for World Democracy": Journeys to Paris 15 CHAPTER ONE: "Let Us Be True to Our Mission": Race Reform and the World War 19 CHAPTER TWO: "The Morning Cometh": The Signi .cance of the Peace 51 PART II: Between the Wars CHAPTER THREE: "From Deep in the Heart of Russia": The Reformers Look Abroad in the 1920s 75 CHAPTER FOUR: "Sounds Suspiciously like Miami": The Turbulent World of the 1930s 101 PART III: From World War II to Vietnam CHAPTER FIVE: "Democracy Should Begin at Home": The Struggle for Equality and the Second World War 131 CHAPTER SIX: "To Help Save the World": Seeking Race Reform,1945 -1950 156 CHAPTER SEVEN: "Struggling to Save America": The Reformers and the World of the 1950s 185 CHAPTER EIGHT: "I've Seen the Promised Land": Triumph and Tragedy in the 1960s 214 POSTLUDE: World Affairs and the Domestic Crusade 229 Notes 235 Index 311
