Fog of War - The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement

Zusatztext raises key questions and will certainly act as a starting point for further (re)examinations of the struggle for black civil rights in a local, national, and global context. Informationen zum Autor KK: Associate Professor of History, Princeton University. Author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton UP, 2005) and co-editor of The New Suburban History (University of Chicago Press, 2006). ST: University Lecturer in History, University of Oxford. Author of We Ain''t What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama (Harvard UP, 2010)and Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980 (University of Georgia, 2003). Klappentext This collection is a timely reconsideration of the intersection between two of the dominant events of twentieth-century American history, the upheaval wrought by the Second World War and the social revolution brought about by the African American struggle for equality. Zusammenfassung This collection is a timely reconsideration of the intersection between two of the dominant events of twentieth-century American history, the upheaval wrought by the Second World War and the social revolution brought about by the African American struggle for equality.

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• Authors: Kevin M. Kruse, Kevin M./ Tuck Kruse, Kruse Kevin M., Stephen Tuck, Tuck Stephen
• Assisted by: Kevin M. Kruse (Editor), Stephen Tuck (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2012
• EAN: 9780195382419
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538241-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Civics and citizenship, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General