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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Höhn, Maria (Author)
Other Authors:	Klimke, Martin (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY ; Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, October 2010
Series:	Culture, politics, and the Cold War
Subjects:	United States > Army > African American troops > History > 20th century African American soldiers > Germany (West) > Social conditions African American soldiers > Social conditions > 20th century African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century African American soldiers > Germany (West) > History World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, African American United States > Race relations > History > 20th century Germany (West) > Race relations > History
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis Book review (H-Net)

Table of 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 : desegregating the army 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.

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