Fighting Racism in World War II From the Pages of the Militant
A week-by-week account from 1939 to 1945 of efforts to advance the Black rights struggle in face of patriotic appeals to postpone resistance to lynch-mob terror and racist discrimination until after U.S. ?victory? in World War II. These struggles'of a piece with rising anti-imperialist battles in Africa, Asia, and the Americas'helped lay the basis for the mass civil rights movement in the postwar decades. Chronology, glossary, notes, index.
HistoryUnited StatesAmericas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Political ScienceSocial ScienceDiscrimination
RELEASED1980
PUBLISHERPathfinder
LENGTH497
LANGUAGEEN
Trinidadian historian and journalist who sometimes wrote under the name J. R. Johnson
Fighting Racism in World War II From the Pages of the Militant
by Cyril Lionel Robert James, George Breitman, Ed Keemer
A week-by-week account from 1939 to 1945 of efforts to advance the Black rights struggle in face of patriotic appeals to postpone resistance to lynch-mob terror and racist discrimination until after U.S. ?victory? in World War II. These struggles'of a piece with rising anti-imperialist battles in Africa, Asia, and the Americas'helped lay the basis for the mass civil rights movement in the postwar decades. Chronology, glossary, notes, index.
HistoryUnited StatesAmericas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Political ScienceSocial ScienceDiscrimination
RELEASED1980
PUBLISHERPathfinder
LENGTH497
LANGUAGEEN
Trinidadian historian and journalist who sometimes wrote under the name J. R. Johnson
