Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, 25th Anniversary Edition

by Mary L. Dudziak

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
How the fight for civil rights in America became an important front in the Cold War

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691274347
• ISBN13: 9780691274348
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 360 Pages