How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to VietnamPrinceton University Press, 2006 - 316 страница How Far the Promised Land? explores the relationship between overseas developments and the most important reform movement in modern American history, the struggle for racial justice. Interweaving civil rights history, U.S. foreign relations history, and twentieth-century international history, the book contributes to the emerging effort to reconceptualize the study of America's past by locating it in a global context. In examining the link between international developments and the quest for racial justice, Jonathan Rosenberg argues that civil rights leaders were profoundly interested in the world beyond America and incorporated their understanding of overseas matters into their reform program in order to fortify and legitimize the message they presented to their followers, the nation, and the international community. |
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... concerns as he should have been . While I am quite sure that I did not always tell them so , the swirl of family excitement , which at times seemed a distraction , made the solitary enterprise of conducting research and writing ...
... concerned with the day - to - day challenges of sustaining the reform enterprise , often in small and inhospitable environments . 7 Perhaps it is surprising that the men and women I have chosen to study — those devoted to building a ...
... concerned the no- tion that America — despite its domestic shortcomings — had a critical role to play in helping to shape world politics , the ultimate outcome of which would be a global order that was less oppressive and more ...
... West antagonism would also become a key concern for the reformers , given the questions it raised about what many saw as a struggle between democracy and tyranny . Throughout the 1950s , as I trace in chapter 7 8 INTRODUCTION.
... concerns , arguing re- peatedly that the United States needed to end domestic racial persecution if it wished to command the loyalty of peoples of color in the developing world , a goal they claimed was vital during the Cold War . The ...