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The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World - Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955 (Hardcover)
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The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World - Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955 (Hardcover)
Series: New Perspectives on the History of the South
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"A fresh and engaging study that illuminates the important,
related, yet neglected histories of the Southern Negro Youth
Congress and the Council on African Affairs. Especially noteworthy
is the perceptive treatment of the linkages between these related
organizations' domestic and international politics."--Waldo E.
Martin, coauthor of "Freedom on My Mind: A History of African
Americans with Documents""" "A welcome addition to the growing body
of literature that examines the interplay between civil rights and
international affairs."--John Kirk, author of "Redefining the Color
Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970" "Swindall
puts the 'long civil rights' movement on a dynamic new world map.
Her meticulous use of archival materials opens up new roots and
routes for scholars of American race history."--Bill Mullen, author
of "Afro-Orientalism" The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the
Council on African Affairs were two organizations created as part
of the early civil rights efforts to address race and labor issues
during the Great Depression. They fought within a leftist,
Pan-African framework against disenfranchisement, segregation,
labor exploitation, and colonialism.
By situating the development of the SNYC and the Council on African
Affairs within the scope of the long civil rights movement, Lindsey
Swindall reveals how these groups conceptualized the U.S. South as
being central to their vision of a global African diaspora. Both
organizations illustrate well the progressive collaborations that
maintained an international awareness during World War II.
Cleavages from anti-radical repression in the postwar years are
also evident in the dismantling of these groups when they became
casualties of the early Cold War.
By highlighting the cooperation that occurred between progressive
activists from the Popular Front to the 1960s, Swindall adds to our
understanding of the intergenerational nature of civil rights and
anticolonial organizing.
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