release Milosevic!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 9 12:24:04 PDT 2002


Gordon Fitch wrote:


>I believe it was the Civil Rights movement that actually
>bullied the Southern segregationists. I am kind of surprised
>to see this role attributed to the U.S. government.

It's often argued that the USG pushed for desegration in the South for Cold War reasons - it would have been hard to make friends in the Third World while Jim Crow still ruled.

Doug



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