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Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s. By Simon Hall. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 267 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8122-3839-7.)
It should have been a sure thing for white liberals and radicals to join with black civil rights activists and nationalists in their opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. But as Simon Hall points out, it was not to be, much to the regret of antiwar movement leaders who were perennially embarrassed at their telegenic demonstrations by their monochromatic foot soldiers.
The author, a British scholar, explains why this happened in Peace and Freedom, an important monograph based on exhaustive archival research (especially in the rich State Historical Society of Wisconsin collections), ephemeral movement periodicals and newsletters, and a handful of carefully chosen interviews. During the early years of the war, traditional...