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Cold War civil rights : race and the image of American democracy / Mary L. Dudziak.

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In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. Soon after the United States'...

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Main Author: Dudziak, Mary L., 1956-
Other title:Race and the image of American democracy.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002, ©2000.
Edition:1st pbk. print.
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Subjects:
United States > Race relations > Political aspects.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > 20th century.
Racism > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
Democracy > United States > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Social aspects > United States.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Democracy.
Politics and government.
Race relations > Political aspects.
Racism > Political aspects.
Social aspects.
United States.
History.

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