Description
Book SynopsisTwo great social causes held center stage in American politics in the 1960s: the civil rights movement and the antiwar groundswell in the face of a deepening American military commitment in Vietnam. In Peace and Freedom, Simon Hall explores two linked themes: the civil rights movement''s response to the war in Vietnam on the one hand and, on the other, the relationship between the black groups that opposed the war and the mainstream peace movement. Based on comprehensive archival research, the book weaves together local and national stories to offer an illuminating and judicious chronicle of these movements, demonstrating how their increasingly radicalized components both found common cause and provoked mutual antipathies.
Peace and Freedom shows how and why the civil rights movement responded to the war in differing ways—explaining black militants'' hostility toward the war while also providing a sympathetic treatment of those organizations and leaders rel
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"An important monograph based on exhaustive archival research." * American Historical Review *
"Hall's original and stimulating Peace and Freedom points out that the extreme fringes of the antiwar movement hurt the effort to end the war sooner." * History News Network *
"In Tocquevillian fashion, [Hall] offers his own 'outsider looking in' perspective. This is a work all serious students of the 1960s . . . should consult." * Peace and Change *
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Organizing Tradition
2. Black Power
3. Black Moderates
4. Racial Tensions
5. Radicalism and Respectability
6. New Coalitions, Old Problems
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
