Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity

by Neil Foley

Book Overview

As the United States championed principles of freedom and equality during World War II, it denied fundamental rights to many non-white citizens. In the wake of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor" policy with Latin America, African American and Mexican American civil rights leaders sought ways to make that policy of respect and mutual obligations apply at home as well as abroad. They argued that a whites-only democracy not only denied...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674050231
• ISBN13: 9780674050235
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"