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From Civil Rights to International Human Rights
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The movement for racial justice in the U.S. has a proud legacy of appeals to the international community starting as far back as the anti-slavery movement. The belief that international pressure on the U.S. was an important component of a multi-faceted campaign against racism fueled efforts in the 1940s and 1950s to engage what were then the U.N.'s newly established human rights mechanisms.
The belief that full redress may lie only in bringing world attention to the plight of African Americans and making common cause with the "colored races of the world," led W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter White, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mordecai W. Johnson and other African American leaders to participate …
