The African American Voice in U.S. Foreign Policy Since World War II

by Michael L. Krenn (Editor)

Overview

Following World War II, America was witness to two great struggles. The first was on
the international front and involved the fight for freedom around the globe, as millions
of people in Asia and Africa rose up to throw off their European colonial masters. In
the decades following 1945 dozens of new nations joined the ranks of independent
countries. Following the Civil War, the African-American voice in U.S. foreign affairs
continued to grow. In the late nineteenth century, a few African-Americans — such as
Frederick Douglass — even served as U.S. diplomats to the "black republics" of Liberia
and Haiti. When America began its overseas thrust during the 1890s, African-American
opinion was divided.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317716747
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/08/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Michael L. Krenn

Table of Contents

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Introduction
American Negroes and U.S. Foreign Policy: 1937-1967
Alfred 0. Hero Jr.
American Black Leaders:
The Response to Colonialism and the Cold War, 1943-1953
James L. Roark
Black Critics of Colonialism and the Cold War
Mark Solomon
Evolution of the Black Foreign Policy Constituency
Brenda Gayle Plummer
The Cold War: Its Impact on the Black Liberation Struggle
Within the United States — P arts I a n d II
Charles W. Cheng
Josephine Baker, Racial Protest, and the Cold War
Mary L. Dudziak
Ralph Bunche and Afro-American Participation
in Decolonization
Robert Harris
From Hope to Disillusion: African Americans, the United
Nations, and the Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1947
Carol Anderson
Hands Across the Water: Afro-American Lawyers and the
Decolonization of Southern Africa
Gerald Horne
The Civil-Rights Movement and American Foreign Policy
James A. Moss
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the War in Vietnam
Adam Fairclough
Blacks and the Vietnam War
Peter B. Levy
Acknowledgments