Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in Modern America, 7)

Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in Modern America, 7)

In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international att…

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