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Peace and Freedom - The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 196s (Paperback, New edition)
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Peace and Freedom - The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 196s (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
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Two great social causes held center stage in American politics in
the 1960s: the civil rights movement and the antiwar groundswell in
the face of a deepening American military commitment in Vietnam. In
Peace and Freedom, Simon Hall explores two linked themes: the civil
rights movement's response to the war in Vietnam on the one hand
and, on the other, the relationship between the black groups that
opposed the war and the mainstream peace movement. Based on
comprehensive archival research, the book weaves together local and
national stories to offer an illuminating and judicious chronicle
of these movements, demonstrating how their increasingly
radicalized components both found common cause and provoked mutual
antipathies. Peace and Freedom shows how and why the civil rights
movement responded to the war in differing ways—explaining black
militants' hostility toward the war while also providing a
sympathetic treatment of those organizations and leaders reluctant
to take a stand. And, while Black Power, counterculturalism, and
left-wing factionalism all made interracial coalition-building more
difficult, the book argues that it was the peace movement's
reluctance to link the struggle to end the war with the fight
against racism at home that ultimately prevented the two movements
from cooperating more fully. Considering the historical
relationship between the civil rights movement and foreign policy,
Hall also offers an in-depth look at the history of black America's
links with the American left and with pacifism. With its keen
insights into one of the most controversial decades in American
history, Peace and Freedom recaptures the immediacy and importance
of the time.
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