Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944 1955 BISAC-EDU037000 To "die in battle" does

To "die in battle" does not mean being killed in acts of physical violence

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Using Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

Author: Kevin Hillstrom

Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944 1955 BISAC-EDU037000 To "die in battle" doesAs World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, the NAACP and African American leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in the United States. The prize they sought was not civil rights, but human rights. Only the human rights lexicon, shaped by the Holocaust and articulated by the United Nations, contained the language