Eugenie M. Anderson

2019 ◽  
pp. 104-131
Author(s):  
Philip Nash
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Communist Country ◽  
Labor Party ◽  
Standing Up

This chapter studies the appointments of Eugenie Anderson as ambassador to Denmark (1949–1953) and minister to Bulgaria (1962–1964). Anderson began as a prominent activist in Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Dispatched to Cold War Denmark by President Harry S. Truman, Anderson reached out publicly like Owen and Harriman had, calling this approach “people’s diplomacy.” For example, she learned Danish, which wowed her hosts. After Anderson returned to Minnesota politics, President John F. Kennedy appointed her minister to Bulgaria, making her the first female US chief of mission in a Communist country. This was a hardship post, but Anderson drew rave reviews for the job she did standing up to an odious Stalinist regime. Anderson’s record, including being the first American woman to sign a treaty, likely establishes her as the most gifted of the early woman envoys.

‘Free gift’ or ‘infiltration’?: Negotiating the Fulbright Agreement

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-29
Author(s):  
Alice Garner ◽  
Diane Kirkby
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Educational Exchange ◽  
Party Government ◽  
Labor Party ◽  
The Us

The Australian Fulbright program began in a period of deepening Cold War tensions. US suspicions of the Australian Labor Party government and Australian negotiators’ suspicions of US cultural diplomacy shaped the negotiations which began as early as 1946. The Australians sought more equality of representation in the administration of the program of educational exchange than the US was initially prepared to allow. After a protracted period of discussions and much delay the Australian Agreement was signed into existence in 1949 with equal representation and better terms than other countries had achieved.

Hansberry, Lorraine (1930–65)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soyica Colbert
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cold War ◽  
American Dream ◽  
African American Woman ◽  
American Woman ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lorraine Hansberry ◽  
The Cold War

Born in Chicago in 1930, Lorraine Hansberry made history when her play A Raisin in the Sun premièred on Broadway in 1959 as the first work by an African-American woman to appear on the Great White Way. Realist in style, A Raisin in the Sun engaged with modern American drama’s investigation of the salience of the American Dream in the context of the Cold War, situating the deferred dreaming of the Younger family within a long history of foreclosed desire and possibility. Hansberry remains best-known for A Raisin in the Sun, but the play both exemplifies and overshadows her other accomplishments as a black lesbian artist-activist, only gesturing toward the expansive political vision of her work as a whole, including her exploration of slavery in The Drinking Gourd (1960), her treatment of apocalypse in What Use Are Flowers (1962), and her consideration of black freedom movements in Les Blancs (1964) and The Movement: A Documentary of a Struggle for Equality (1964).

4. Modern American women, 1920 to the present

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Ware
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
American Woman ◽  
World War ◽  
American Women ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
The Cold War

‘Modern American women, 1920 to the present’ begins with Eleanor Roosevelt, perhaps the twentieth century's most influential and admired American woman. It describes new dilemmas for modern women, who got many of their ideas from the movies, and how gender—as well as class, race, and geography—affected the experience of hard times during the Great Depression. The New Deal's mix of relief programs, stimulus spending, and economic reforms responded to the economic crisis, but it was spending for World War II that solved the problem. The war increased labor opportunities for women. The effects of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the revival of feminism, and the continuing struggle for equality and diversity are also discussed.

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