The Black Scare: Cold War Anticommunism and the Long Civil Rights Movement in America

This thesis discusses the impact of the Cold War on the Long African American Civil Rights Movement in the US from 1945 into the early 1970s. I seek to address the historiography that argues that the Cold War was an animating or galvanizing force behind the Civil Rights movement. I argue that black...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stewart, Kierstin
Other Authors: Murray, Heather
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35506
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-464