Breath of Freedom The Civil Rights Struggle, African American Gis, and Germany

Name: Breath of Freedom The Civil Rights Struggle, African American Gis, and Germany
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ISBN: 9780230104730

ISBN-10: 0230104738

ISBN-13: 9780230104730

Edition: 2010

Authors: Maria Hï¿½hn, Martin A. Klimke

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This moving and beautifully illustrated book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad. Because of the American military occupation after World War II, America's unresolved civil rights agenda was exposed to world-wide scrutiny as never before. America's ambitious efforts to democratize German society after the defeat of Nazism also meant that West Germany was exposed to American ideas of freedom and democracy to a much larger degree than many other countries.The politicization and radicalization of African-American GIs over…

Book details

List price: $34.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 9/15/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 254
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Maria H ohn is associate professor of history at Vassar College.

Martin Klimke is research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg.



List of Illustrations


Foreword



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Closing Ranks: World War I and the Rise of Hitler



Fighting on Two Fronts: World War II and Civil Rights



"We Will Never Go Back to the Old Way Again": African American GIs and the Occupation of Germany



Setting the Stage for Brown: Integrating the Military in Germany



Bringing Civil Rights to East and West: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Cold War Berlin



Revolutionary Alliances: The Rise of Black Power



Heroes of the Other America: East German Solidarity with the African American Freedom Struggle



A Call for Justice: The Racial Crisis in the Military and the GI Movement


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index