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How Far the Promised Land?

World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam

By: Jonathan Rosenberg

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Hardcover | 23 October 2005

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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.

The book considers how a cosmopolitan group of black and white, male and female race reform leaders purposively deployed World War I and the peace settlement, the decolonization struggles in Africa and Asia, the emergence of communism and fascism, World War II, and the Cold War to help realize their domestic aspirations. Rosenberg sets this complex story against the backdrop of America's growing activism on the world stage, a development that would have significant positive implications for the domestic struggle. Central to the work is the notion that race reform leaders were animated by the idea of "color-conscious internationalism," a distinctive outlook that would affect the trajectory and momentum of the civil rights movement.

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"Jonathan Rosenberg, describing 'color-conscious internationalism', demonstrated how the men and women who struggled to win equality for black Americans used world affairs--and especially wars--to advance their cause... Rosenberg does a superb job of analyzing the interplay of world affairs and the quest for racial justice in the United States from 1914 to the 1960s."--Warren I. Cohen, International History Review

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies Black & Asian Studies Politics & Government Political Control & Freedoms Human Rights Civil Rights & Citizenship

Political Activism International Relations Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Color-Conscious Internationalism and the Twentieth-Century Struggle	p. 1
World War I and the Peace Settlement
Prelude: "Yours for World Democracy": Journeys to Paris	p. 15
"Let Us Be True to Our Mission": Race Reform and the World War	p. 19
"The Morning Cometh": The Signi .cance of the Peace	p. 51
Between the Wars
"From Deep in the Heart of Russia": The Reformers Look Abroad in the 1920s	p. 75
"Sounds Suspiciously like Miami": The Turbulent World of the 1930s	p. 101
From World War II to Vietnam
"Democracy Should Begin at Home": The Struggle for Equality and the Second World War	p. 131
"To Help Save the World": Seeking Race Reform,1945 -1950	p. 156
"Struggling to Save America": The Reformers and the World of the 1950s	p. 185
"I've Seen the Promised Land": Triumph and Tragedy in the 1960s	p. 214
Postlude: World Affairs and the Domestic Crusade	p. 229
Notes	p. 235
Index	p. 311
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How Far the Promised Land?

World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam

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