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Author:

Höhn, Maria, 1955-

Title:

A breath of freedom : the civil rights struggle, African American GIs, and Germany / Maria Höhn and Martin Klimke.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xxvii, 254 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African American soldiers--Germany (West)--History.
African American soldiers--Germany (West)--Social conditions.
African American soldiers--Social conditions--20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
Germany (West)--History.--History.
United States--History--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
United States.--Army--History--History--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American.

Other Authors:

Klimke, Martin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Culture, politics, and the Cold War

ISBN:

0230104738 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780230104730 (pbk. : alk. paper)
023010472X (alk. paper)
9780230104723 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)609541048

LCCN:

2010019156

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)