Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (New in Paper) (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)

In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. Soon after the United States' segregated military defeated a racist regime in World War II, American racism was a majo More »