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The Nazi persecution of Jews and the African American freedom struggle
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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Patterns of PrejudiceISSN
0031-322XPublisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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4Volume
53Page range
337-362Department affiliated with
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2019-04-09First Open Access (FOA) Date
2021-02-14First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-04-09Usage metrics
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