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Essay / Black History: The Civil Rights Movement - 622
Throughout the course of black history, African Americans have fought for the right to be considered human beings and not just as pre-emancipation white ownership in the southern states of the United States. United States This struggle has been a constant battle since the liberation of black people by the 14th Amendment, but the most notable was 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 this era of American history in depth and explains this struggle amid the politics of war cold. Anderson focuses his texts on the role of black organizations such as the NAACP and their role in United States international and foreign policy. Historians Mary Dudziack, Micheal Krenn, and Thomas Borstlemann have been recognized in this work for their contributions to the struggle for black equality in that their scholarly contributions share the same historiography as that of Carol Anderson, Eyes off the Prize. Author Carol Anderson uses their work to support her own thesis. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and...