Fog of War: The Second World War And The Civil Rights Movement - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195382404 ISBN 13: 9780195382402

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012

Synopsis

It is well known that World War Ii gave rise to human rights rhetoric, discredited a racist regime abroad, and provided new opportunities for African Americans to fight, work, and demand equality at home. It would be all too easy to assume that the war was a key stepping stone to the modern civil rights movement. But Fog of War shows that in reality the momentum for civil rights was not so clear cut, with activists facing setbacks as well as successes and their opponents finding ways to establish more rigid defenses for segregation. While the war set the scene for a mass movement, it also narrowed some of the options for black activists. 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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Review:

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. (Christine Knauer, H-Soz-u-Kult)

a compelling collection of essays. (Allan M. Winkler, War In History)

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0195382404
• ISBN 13: 9780195382402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Kruse Kevin M., Tuck Stephen