04466nam 2200769Ia 450 991046557300332120200520144314.00-19-970019-297866134269561-283-42695-10-19-538240-4(CKB)2560000000294436(EBL)845945(OCoLC)773945688(SSID)ssj0000590451(PQKBManifestationID)11364864(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000590451(PQKBWorkID)10670609(PQKB)11323447(StDuBDS)EDZ0000062054(MiAaPQ)EBC845945(Au-PeEL)EBL845945(CaPaEBR)ebr10523369(CaONFJC)MIL342695(EXLCZ)99256000000029443620110509d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFog of war[electronic resource] the Second World War and the civil rights movement /edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Stephen TuckOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20121 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-538241-2 0-19-993264-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement; 1 Freedom to Want: The Federal Government and Politicized Consumption in World War II; 2 Confronting the Roadblock: Congress, Civil Rights, and World War II; 3 Segregation and the City: White Supremacy in Alabama in the Mid-Twentieth Century; 4 Movement Building during the World War II Era: The NAACP's Legal Insurgency in the South; 5 Hillburn, Hattiesburg, and Hitler: Wartime Activists Think Globally and Act Locally6 "You can sing and punch . . . but you can't be a soldier or a man": African American Struggles for a New Place in Popular Culture7 "A War for States' Rights": The White Supremacist Vision of Double Victory; 8 The Sexual Politics of Race in World War II America; 9 Civil Rights and World War II in a Global Frame: Shape-Shifting Racial Formations and the U.S. Encounter with European and Japanese Colonialism; 10 Race, Rights, and Nongovernmental Organizations at the UN San Francisco Conference: A Contested History of "Human Rights . . . without Discrimination"11 "Did the Battlefield Kill Jim Crow?": The Cold War Military, Civil Rights, and Black Freedom StrugglesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YIt is well known that World War II gave rise to human rights rhetoric, discredited a racist regime abroad, and provided new opportunities for African Americans to fight, work, and demand equality at home. It would be all too easy to assume that the war was a key stepping stone to the modern civil rights movement. But Fog of War shows that in reality the momentum for civil rights was not so clear cut, with activists facing setbacks as well as successes and their opponents finding ways to establish more rigid defenses for segregation. While the war set the scene for a mass movement, it also narrAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansSocial conditions20th centuryCivil rights movementsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWar and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945African AmericansWorld War, 1939-1945Social aspectsUnited StatesUnited StatesRace relationsHistory20th centuryUnited StatesSocial conditions1933-1945Electronic books.African AmericansCivil rightsHistoryAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsCivil rights movementsHistoryWar and societyHistoryWorld War, 1939-1945African Americans.World War, 1939-1945Social aspects940.53089/96073Kruse Kevin Michael1972-1026351Tuck Stephen G. N1036388MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465573003321Fog of war2470694UNINA