| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955. By Carol Anderson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 302 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-82431-1. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-521-53158-6.)

During World War II, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) recognized that African Americans required more than political and legal rights to gain racial equality. They needed both civil rights and human rights (economic and social rights) to overcome the damage inflicted by more than three centuries of slavery, segregation, and systemic racism. Carol Anderson very cogently helps us to understand how the struggle for human rights got derailed by white southern political opposition to any international agreements that might interfere with states' rights and by the Cold War hysteria that cast any guarantees of education, employment, health care, and housing as Communistic.

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