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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... suggests the importance race leaders attached to the peace conference . Identifying an interconnec- tion between developments in Paris and in the United States , Du Bois noted that race reform leaders would not hesitate to link ...
... suggest that during much of the twentieth century , a considerable amount of the movement's energy and direction came from above . From World War I through the mid - 1950s , top leaders and organi- zations like the NAACP played a ...
... suggested that the United States has a special mission in the world , the achievement of which would enable humanity to construct a more cooperative global order . 9 In important respects , the race reform leaders subscribed to such ...
... suggested that color - conscious internationalism powerfully in- formed how American race reformers viewed the world and that through- out the twentieth century they placed their understanding of international affairs at the center of ...
... suggests the divisive effect the Vietnam War wrought on the civil rights campaign . Many , but not all , reformers came to argue that American bru- tality overseas was merely an extension of American brutality at home , a perspective ...