Seeing Domestic History as International History:

Websites

John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Speech, June 11, 1963. Kennedy's famous speech linking civil rights to US Cold War policy.

Sites About Little Rock High School and the 1958 desegregation crisis

The Civil Rights Era: From the National Archives

Brown Vs. Board of Education: A series of National Public Radio Stories on the abckground to the historic desegregation ruling

Jazz Ambassadors and the Cold War: An Interview with Dave Brubeck

Books and Articles on Race, Civil Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy:

Mary Dudziak, "Brown as a Cold War Case," Journal of American History 91 (June 2004): 32–42.

Brenda GaylePlummer, Ed. Window on Freedom Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988 (UNC Press, 2003).

Borstelmann, Thomas, The Cold War and the Color Line: Race Relations and American Foreign Policy, Cambridge, 2001.

Horne, Gerald, Black & Red: W.E.B. DuBois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963, Albany, 1986.

Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000 Read a review here

Meriwether, James, Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961, Chapel Hill, 2003.

 Plummer, Brenda, Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960, Chapel Hill, 1996.

Von Eschen, Penny, Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957, Ithaca, 1997.

Horne, Gerald, From the Barrel of a Gun: The United States and the War Against Zimbawe, 1965-1980, Chapel Hill, 2001.

Rotter, Andrew, Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964, Ithaca, 2000.

Von Eschen, Penny M. Satchmo Blows The World – Jazz Ambassadors Play The Cold War (Harvard, 2005)

Smith, Tony, Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy, Cambridge, MA, 2000.