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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... president of the NAACP 32 Mary Church Terrell , first president of the National Association of Colored Women 62 William Monroe Trotter , secretary of the National Equal Rights League and editor of the Boston Guardian 69 James Weldon ...
... president of the United States.3 Indeed , just days before both men left for Europe , Du Bois penned an illuminating letter to Woodrow Wilson , which suggests the importance race leaders attached to the peace conference . Identifying an ...
... president had repeatedly told his fellow citizens that they were involved in a conflict that would enable humanity to establish a more just and democratic world , an effort America was uniquely suited to lead . Lis- tening closely to ...
... presidents and policymakers to portray the United States as the international defender of democratic ideals calls forth another of the book's themes , namely , the correlation between the emergence of American globalism and progress ...
... President Woodrow Wilson set sail for France . Five destroyers from the Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla escorted the president's ship , the George Washington , out of the harbor toward the open sea . Small craft of every description circled ...