From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy

by Sarah B. Snyder

Book Overview

The 1960s marked a transformation of human rights activism in the United States. At a time of increased concern for the rights of their fellow citizens--civil and political rights, as well as the social and economic rights that Great Society programs sought to secure--many Americans saw inconsistencies between domestic and foreign policy and advocated for a new approach. The activism that arose from the upheavals of the 1960s fundamentally altered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231169477
• ISBN13: 9780231169479
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"