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U.S. in an Age of Global Crisis: Responsibility and Cooperation

Peace in Peril (1945 —1960)

U.S. Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

From the Truman Library, President Truman’s Aug. 6, 1945 Press Release, other documents, and background information about President Truman’s Decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japanese cities:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/bomb.htm

Reaction to the Holocaust

“Evil: The Crime Against Humanity”: Hannah Arendt Papers, American Memories Collection, Library of Congress:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendthtml/essayc1.html

“Holocaust on Trial,” PBS, NOVA program companion webpages :

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/

War’s Impact on Minorities in U.S.

Incarceration of Japanese in U.S.

Korematsu v. U.S., 323 U.S. 214 (1944) -- U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the detention, on grounds of national security during war-time, of thousands of West-Coast Japanese Americans during WWII:

CompuLEGAL Analysis of Korematsu case on Project LEGAL webpages:

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/scales/korematsu.html

Text of official Korematsu Court Opinion, on Cornell University’s LII website (scroll down list of names to “K”—Korematsu and click on “Syllabus” (short summary) or “Decision”):

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/name.htm#Case_Name-I-K

African Americans

From the Truman Library, “Truman Administration & Desegregation of U.S. Armed Forces” – chronology (1945-1953) and links to archived materials:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/desegregation/large/deseg1.htm

Truman’s Address to the NAACP, June, 1947, from the Truman Library:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/trumanpapers/pppus/1947/130.htm

Discrimination in Housing, Employment, Education

Photograph of Negro Housing in Washington, D.C., by T. Horydczak, in Library of Congress’ American Memories Collection (click on 1950-59 under “Time Periods”, enter in search box “negro 1950s” and then click on photographs 13, and 16 in list):

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html

1957 Civil Rights Act (click on this in list of documents) in “Source Documents, American Post-WW II Period,” at Multied.com website:

http://www.multied.com/documents/postwar.html

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