"Dudziak (Cold War Civil Rights) argues that the problem of race attracted so much foreign attention in the early Cold War that it threatened to undermine U.S. claims to the superiority of democracy of communism" - Laurie B. Green Law and History Review, 2002
"It seems probable that we have crossed some sort of watershed in foreign judgments and perspectives on the racial issue in the U.S." - United States Information Agency, 1966
"The pressure of world opinion was crucial to the speed with which civil-right gains were made after 1954." - Louis Menand New Yorker, 2013