Anticommunism and the African American freedom movement : "another side of the story"

Anticommunism and the African American freedom movement : "another side of the story" /

The original essays in this book highlight the destructive impact of McCarthyism on the African American Freedom Movement. Recovering little-known stories of black radical activism, they challenge the idea that the Cold War was, on balance, beneficial to the movement. The book emphasizes what was lo...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Lieberman, Robbie, 1954- (Editor), Lang, Clarence (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Series:Contemporary Black history.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
Feminism > United States > History.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > History.
Social movements > United States > History.
Anti-communist movements > United States > History.
Radicalism > United States > History.
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Quieting the chorus : progressive women's race and peace politics in postwar New York / Jacqueline Castledine
  • The march of young southern Black women : Esther Cooper Jackson, Black left feminism, and the personal and political costs of Cold War repression / Erik McDuffie
  • Correspondence : journalism, anticommunism and Marxism in 1950s Detroit / Rachel Peterson
  • Freedom train derailed : the National Negro Labor Council and the nadir of Black radicalism, 1950-1956 / Clarence Lang
  • Challenges to solidarity : the Mexican American fight for social and economic justice, 1946-1963 / Zaragosa Vargas.

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