The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World

A useful, well-researched reminder that the U.S. struggle for racial civic inclusion domestically and anticolonial fairness internationally was more ideologically and tactically diverse than popularly portrayed. Choice Adds much-needed texture to the growing historiography on African American protest politics and the global understandings of racism during the 1930s and 1940s. American Historical Review Those wishing to explore the CAA or the SNYC or the connections between the U.S. South and the black freedom and anticolonial struggles will be glad that Swindall has helped enrich that understanding. Journal of American History Invites scholars and students of social movements to consider the global intersectionality of two under-examined equal rights organizations of the 20th century, placing the scholarship on the southern civil rights campaigns in conversation with works on the anticolonial struggles in the global South. Journal of African American History Provides a detailed examination of the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC) and the Council on African Affairs (CAA) to situate these black-labor-left coalitions as part of the long civil rights movement. Journal for the Study of Radicalism Joins a growing number of monographs that complicate our understanding of how the anticolonial struggle outside the United States influenced American civil rights activists. . . . Illuminates the civil rights movements persistence despite the postwar Red Scare. North Carolina Historical Review

Lindsey R. Swindall, teaching assistant professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, is the author of The Politics of Paul Robesons Othello and Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art.