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[A] welcome addition to growing literature that stresses the heterogeneity of civil rights protest in the postwar era... Raymonds study provides both insight and avenues for further scholarly discussion and exploration... [H]ighly entertaining and readable. -- Mark Walmsley H-1960s Emilie Raymond approaches this subject through a comprehensive survey of six black activist Hollywood celebrities and their contributions to racial equality. Tracing the often uneasy relationship of Hollywood with black identity and culture from the 1940s to the present, Stars for Freedom also lays a thorough foundation between film and American racial politics today. -- Sarah Jilani Times Literary Supplement

"""A welcome addition to growing literature that stresses the heterogeneity of civil rights protest in the postwar era.... Raymond’s study provides both insight and avenues for further scholarly discussion and exploration... Highly entertaining and readable."" -- Mark Walmsley * H-1960s * ""Emilie Raymond approaches this subject through a comprehensive survey of six black activist Hollywood celebrities and their contributions to racial equality. Tracing the often uneasy relationship of Hollywood with black identity and culture from the 1940s to the present, Stars for Freedom also lays a thorough foundation between film and American racial politics today."" -- Sarah Jilani * Times Literary Supplement *"

[A] welcome addition to growing literature that stresses the heterogeneity of civil rights protest in the postwar era... Raymond's study provides both insight and avenues for further scholarly discussion and exploration... [H]ighly entertaining and readable. -- Mark Walmsley H-1960s Emilie Raymond approaches this subject through a comprehensive survey of six black activist Hollywood celebrities and their contributions to racial equality. Tracing the often uneasy relationship of Hollywood with black identity and culture from the 1940s to the present, Stars for Freedom also lays a thorough foundation between film and American racial politics today. -- Sarah Jilani Times Literary Supplement

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Emilie Raymond is associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of ""From My Cold, Dead Hands"": Charlton Heston and American Politics.

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