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The African American Experience during World War II (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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The African American Experience during World War II (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: The African American Experience Series
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Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A.
Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates
the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African
Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years
were crucial in the development of the emerging Civil Rights
movement through the economic and social impact of the war, as well
as the military service itself. Wynn examines the period within the
broader context of the New Deal era of the 1930s and the Cold War
of the 1950s, concluding that the war years were neither simply a
continuation of earlier developments nor a prelude to later change.
Rather, this period was characterized by an intense transformation
of black hopes and expectations, encouraged by real socio-economic
shifts and departures in federal policy. Black self consciousness
at a national level found powerful expression in new movements,
from the demand for equality in the military service to changes in
the shop floor to the "Double V" campaign that linked the fight for
democracy at home for the fight for democracy abroad. As the nation
played a new world role in the developing Cold War, the tensions
between America's stated beliefs and actual practices emphasized
these issues and brought new forces into play. More than a half
century later, this book presents a much-needed up-to-date, short
and readable interpretation of existing scholarship. Accessible to
general and student readers, it tells the story without jargon or
theory while including the historiography and debate on particular
issues.
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