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The Nazi persecution of Jews and the African American freedom struggle

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posted on 2023-06-09, 17:32 authored by Clive WebbClive Webb
Webb’s article assesses the impact of the Nazi persecution of European Jews on black civil rights activism in the United States. It demonstrates how African Americans, motivated by genuine moral outrage as well as political opportunism, drew explicit analogies between their own oppression and the suffering of European Jewry. Black activists decried what they saw as the hypocrisy of white Americans for condemning Nazism while complacently ignoring the often violent racial discrimination that persisted in their own country. African Americans hoped that in highlighting this contradiction they would embarrass their own government into taking more interventionist action against white supremacists and thereby advance the cause of racial equality. This strategy persisted throughout the Second World War and the mass civil rights activism of the decades that followed.

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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Patterns of Prejudice

ISSN

0031-322X

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

4

Volume

53

Page range

337-362

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  • History Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2019-04-09

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2021-02-14

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-04-09

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