Further Reading

African Americans, the Cold War, Civil Rights, and Africa

• Anderson, Carol. Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Borstelmann, Thomas. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
• Campbell, James T. Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005. New York: Penguin Press, 2006.
• Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
• Dudziak, Mary L. Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Gaines, Kevin K. American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
• Meriwether, James H. Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935–1961. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
• Nesbitt, Francis Njubi. Race for Sanctions: African Americans against Apartheid, 1946–1994. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
• Plummer, Brenda Gayle. Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935–1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
• Rosenberg, Jonathan. How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
• Von Eschen, Penny M. Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

The United States, Decolonization, and Africa

• Gleijeses, Piero. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959–1976. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
• Mahoney, Richard D. JFK: Ordeal in Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
• Noer, Thomas. Cold War and Black Liberation: The United States and White Rule in Africa, 1948–1968. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985.
• Ryan, David and Victor Pungong. The United States and Decolonization: Power and Freedom. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
• Schraeder, Peter. United States Foreign Policy Toward Africa: Incrementalism, Crisis, and Change. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of our Times. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

On 1960 Presidential Campaign

• Donaldson, Gary A. The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.
• U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce. Freedom of Communications, part I: The Speeches, Remarks, Press Conferences, and Statements of Senator John F. Kennedy, August 1 through November 7, 1960. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1961.
• U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Commerce. Freedom of Communications, part II: The Speeches, Remarks, Press Conferences, and Study Papers of Vice President Richard M. Nixon, August 1 through November 7, 1960. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1961.
• White, Theodore H. The Making of the President: 1960. New York: Atheneum, 1961.