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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-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Edition:[New ed.] /
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Subjects:
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 > Race relations > Political aspects.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.

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