A “Hollow Mockery”: African Americans, White Supremacy, and the Development of Human Rights in the United States

Bringing Human Rights Home: Volumes 1-3

Volumn 1-3, Issue , 2007, Pages 75-101

  Anderson, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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