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Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) (Updated Edition) by Mary L. Dudziak Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-691-09513-2 / 0691095132 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-09513-4 / 9780691095134 In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. Soon after the United States' s |