Black History: The Cvil Rights Movement

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Throughout the course of Black history, African Americans Have fought for the right to be viewed as human and not merely the dispatched property of pre-emancipation whites in the southern states of the U.S. This struggle had been a constant battle since the liberation of blacks by the 14th amendment however, most noted during the “Civil Rights era”. Carol Anderson’s Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the Struggle for African American Human Rights, 1944-1955 explores this era in American History in depth and explains this struggle in the midst of Cold War politics. Anderson focuses her texts on the role of Black organizations such as the NAACP and their role in U.S. international and foreign policies.
Historians Mary Dudziack, Micheal Krenn, and Thomas Borstlemann have been credited in this work for their contribution to the struggle for Black equality in that their scholarly contributions share the same historiography as Carol Andersons Eyes off the Prize. Author Carol Anderson uses their works to build upon her own thesis.
Mary L Dudziak’s Cold War Civil Rights: Race and...

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