Mary Dudziak, author of the book Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, explores impacts of Cold War foreign affairs on American civil rights reform during a period when international eyes focused on the United States as leader of the free world. A leading United States legal historian, Dudziak has written several books on the crossing of domestic law and international affairs. Professor of law at Emory University Dudziak has clerked with the 4th US District Court of Appeals and was once a professor of law and history at the University of Iowa. Opening with a 1957 court case from Alabama, the book begins by exploring how Jimmy Wilson; a black handyman working for an elderly white female was accused, convicted and
