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. Zusammenfassung 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. 1. "U.S. Negroes, Your Fight is Our Fight": Black Britons and the 1963 March on Washington; Kennetta Hammond Perry 2. "Black Was the Colour of our Fight": The Transnational Roots of British Black Power; Rosie Wild Individual Life: A Black Englishman in the Heart of the Confederacy: The Transnational Life of Paul Stephenson; Nick Juravich 3. Caribbean Left: Diasporic Circulations; Carole Boyce Davies 4. Scholar-Activist St. Clair Drake and the Transatlantic World of Black Radicalism; Kevin Gaines Individual Life: "We all became black": Tony Soares, African-American internationalists, and anti-imperialism; Anne-Marie Angelo 5. A Heavy Load: The American Civil Rights Movement and the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement; Marc Mulholland 6. Containing Racism?: The London Experience, 1957-1968; John Davis Individual Life: From Manchester to Monroe: The unexpected journey of Constance Lever; Stephen Tuck and Imaobong Umoren 7. "Nobody in This World Is Better Than Us":Calypso in the Age of Decolonization and Civil Rights; Joshua B. Guild 8. Stax, Subcultures, and Civil Rights: Young Britain and the Politics of Soul Music in the 1960s; Joe Street Individual Life: From Guy Warren to Kofi Ghanaba: A Life of Trans-Atlantic (Dis)Connections; Robin Kelley 9. Violence at Desmond's Hip City: Gender and Soul Power in London; Tanisha C. Ford 10. Brotherhood, Betrayal, and Rivers of Blood: Southern Segregationists and British Race Relations; Clive Webb ...

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Edited By Robin D. G. Kelley and Stephen Tuck

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1. "U.S. Negroes, Your Fight is Our Fight": Black Britons and the 1963 March on Washington; Kennetta Hammond Perry 2. "Black Was the Colour of our Fight": The Transnational Roots of British Black Power; Rosie Wild Individual Life: A Black Englishman in the Heart of the Confederacy: The Transnational Life of Paul Stephenson; Nick Juravich 3. Caribbean Left: Diasporic Circulations; Carole Boyce Davies 4. Scholar-Activist St. Clair Drake and the Transatlantic World of Black Radicalism; Kevin Gaines Individual Life: "We all became black": Tony Soares, African-American internationalists, and anti-imperialism; Anne-Marie Angelo 5. A Heavy Load: The American Civil Rights Movement and the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement; Marc Mulholland 6. Containing Racism?: The London Experience, 1957-1968; John Davis Individual Life: From Manchester to Monroe: The unexpected journey of Constance Lever; Stephen Tuck and Imaobong Umoren 7. "Nobody in This World Is Better Than Us":Calypso in the Age of Decolonization and Civil Rights; Joshua B. Guild 8. Stax, Subcultures, and Civil Rights: Young Britain and the Politics of Soul Music in the 1960s; Joe Street Individual Life: From Guy Warren to Kofi Ghanaba: A Life of Trans-Atlantic (Dis)Connections; Robin Kelley 9. Violence at Desmond's Hip City: Gender and Soul Power in London; Tanisha C. Ford 10. Brotherhood, Betrayal, and Rivers of Blood: Southern Segregationists and British Race Relations; Clive Webb