Her Majesty's African-American Allies

Abstract

It is well-established that African-Americans have sought allies abroad as a way to weaken opposition at home. Often, scholars have tackled this important topic as it manifested during the Cold War.1 Azza Salama Layton, International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941–1960 (New York, 2000); Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton, NJ, 2000); Gerald Horne, Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (London, 2016). R.J.M. Blackett, Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830–1860 (Baton Rouge, LA, 1983); Richard Huzzey, Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain (Ithaca, NY, 2012); Gerald Horne, Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation (New York, 2012). Gerald Horne, Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois (New York, 2012); Gerald Horne, Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle (Urbana, IL, 2013).