Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism

by James Zeigler

Book Overview

During the early years of the Cold War, racial segregation in the American South became an embarrassing liability to the international reputation of the United States. For America to present itself as a model of democracy in contrast to the Soviet Union's totalitarianism, Jim Crow needed to end. While the discourse of anticommunism added the leverage of national security to the moral claims of the civil rights movement, the proliferation of Red Scare...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496809718
• ISBN13: 9781496809711
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"