The Other Special Relationship : Race, Rights, and Riots in Britain and the United States.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 "U.S. Negroes, Your Fight is Our Fight": Black Britons and the 1963 March on Washington -- 2 "Black Was the Colour of Our Fight": The Transnational Roots of British Black Power -- Individual Life A Black Englishman in the Heart of the Confederacy: The Transnational Life of Paul Stephenson -- 3 Caribbean Left: Diasporic Circulation -- 4 Scholar-Activist St. Clair Drake and the Transatlantic World of Black Radicalism -- Individual Life "We All Became Black": Tony Soares, African-American Internationalists, and Anti-imperialism -- 5 A Heavy Load: The American Civil Rights Movement and the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement -- 6 Containing Racism? The London Experience, 1957-1968* -- Individual Life -- 7 "Nobody in This World Is Better Than Us": Calypso in the Age of Decolonization and Civil Rights -- 8 Stax, Subcultures, and Civil Rights: Young Britain and the Politics of Soul Music in the 1960s -- Individual Life From Guy Warren to Kofi Ghanaba: A Life of Transatlantic (Dis)Connections -- 9 Violence at Desmond's Hip City: Gender and Soul Power in London -- 10 Brotherhood, Betrayal, and Rivers of Blood: Southern Segregationists and British Race Relations -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

The diplomatic "special relationship" between the US and UK has received much attention from historians, while their shared history of racial inequality and civil rights struggles have been relatively understudied. This collection explores this other "special relationship," expanding our historical understanding of the global civil rights movement.

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