April 2, 2014.
Maria Höhn,
Professor of History and
International Studies on the Marion Musser Lloyd Chair
at Vassar College, talks about her most recent
book, co-authored with Martin Klimke, entitled: A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany, published by Palgrave in 2010.
"Depicting the African American GI as the unheralded keystone of the civil
rights movement in America during the post-WWII era, this book exhilaratingly exposes the two-facedness of America denazifying Germany while
practicing Jim Crow segregation in its own military. With a thorough analysis of the African American press’s role in disclosing this hypocrisy, it
reveals the many ways in which subsequent civil rights leaders owe their
success to the groundwork laid by African American GIs. Together, they
forged the space to launch a civil rights revolution in America." -- Calvin Robinson, President, NAACP
58:23 minutes.
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