Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement

This collection of essays looks at the impact of anticommunism on black political culture during the early years of the Cold War, with an eye toward local and individual stories that offer insight into larger national and international issues.

Auteur
ROBBIE LIEBERMAN Professor of History at Southern Illinois University, USA. CLARENCE LANG Assistant Professor at the African American Studies & Research Program and Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Contenu
'Another Side of the Story': African American Intellectuals Speak Out for Peace and Freedom during the Early Cold War Years; R.Lieberman Quieting the Chorus: Progressive Women's Race and Peace Politics in Postwar New York; J.Castledine The March of Young Southern Black Women: Esther Cooper Jackson, Black Left Feminism, and the Personal and Political Costs of Cold War Repression; E.McDuffie Correspondence: Journalism, Anticommunism and Marxism in 1950s Detroit; R.Peterson Freedom Train Derailed: The National Negro Labor Council and the Nadir of Black Radicalism 1950-1956; C.Lang Challenges to Solidarity: The Mexican American Fight for Social and Economic Justice 1946-1963; Z.Vargas