Book Review Of Parting The Water By Mary Dudziak

Martin Luther King once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This statement just can be proved from the international reaction of segregation in the USA. In Cold War Civil Rights, the author Mary L. Dudziak tells the story of the Civil Right movement from a different perspective from most historians. She argues that the Cold War was the main motivation for the United States government to end segregation. This review will examine the contents Cold War Civil Rights and evaluate the author’s argument. This book was published in 2000 from Princeton Publication and republished in 2011 with a new preface. Mary L. Dudziak, the author of the book, is a legal history professor at Emory University. Most of her work sets American

Most books focuses on the domestic protest and police brutality when discussing the Civil Right Movement. One example would be the book named “Parting the Water” by Taylor Branch. In that book, the author represents Martin Luther King as the key “main player” and does not mention international impact. On the other hand, Cold War Civil Rights mentions the significance of MLK while pointing out how the foreign policy of the USA was impacting the Civil Right Movement. The mainstream curriculum also gives a similar perspective as “Parting the Water.” In Give Me Liberty, a widely used college textbook by Eric Foner also ignores international criticism of race relation in America but have some acknowledgement of it. The Culture of the Cold War by Stephan J. Whitfield is one of the exceptions that tells the Civil Rights story in the light of the Cold War. The book has a similar description of the Civil Rights Movement becoming a world-known event. Evaluating the Civil Rights under the field of “America in the World” is very new. The methodology of thinking globally about America in becoming more common and Cold War Civil Rights in one great example of