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Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988, edited by Brenda Gayle Plummer, does a good job of placing the United States's Civil Rights Movement into international context. Because this book is an anthology, its essays cover a wide range of topics and it is incredibly difficult to coherently summarize. However, for this review I will summarize some of the essays to give the reader a sampling of what he or she will read in the book. Due to it being a collection of essays, the book puts forth numerous arguments, but one of the most common threads running through it is that “racism undermined US global leadership and strained its relations with countries that had a stake in achieving global racial equality” (7).