{"product_id":"how-far-the-promised-land-world-affairs-and-the-american-civil-rights-movement-from-the-first-world-war-to-vietnam-9780691007069","title":"How Far the Promised Land  World Affairs and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359098601815,"sku":"9780691007069","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691007069.jpg?v=1754123582","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-far-the-promised-land-world-affairs-and-the-american-civil-rights-movement-from-the-first-world-war-to-vietnam-9780691007069","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}