Throughout black history, African Americans have fought for the right to be considered human and not simply the property of pre-emancipation whites in the southern states of the United States This struggle has been a constant battle since the liberation of blacks with the 14th amendment, however, most of it was noticed 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 in depth this era of American history and explains this struggle in the midst of Cold War politics. Anderson focuses his lyrics on the role of black organizations such as the NAACP and their role in the international and foreign policy of the United States. Historians Mary Dudziack, Micheal Krenn, and Thomas Borstlemann were credited in this work for their contributions to the fight for black equality in which their scholarly contributions share the same historiography as Carol Anderson's Eyes off the Prize. Author Carol Anderson uses their works to develop her thesis. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and by Mary L Dudziak...
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