Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955

by Carol Anderson

Book Overview

As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, the NAACP and African-American leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in the United States. The prize they sought was not civil rights, but human rights. Only the human rights lexicon, shaped by the Holocaust and articulated by the United Nations, contained the language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521531586
• ISBN13: 9780521531580
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"