Abstract
American opposition to the Genocide Convention stemmed primarily from four sources: a group of Judges who had participated in the Nuremberg Trials, some of the activists in the movement for human rights, a section of the American Bar Association (ABA) and, above all, the Southern wing of the Democratic party. Basically this is the story of how a group of Southern senators exploited fears about a movement for civil rights for the black population of the United States to frustrate Lemkin’s campaign for the ratification of the treaty in the Senate.
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Notes
William Korey, An Epitaph for Raphael Lemkin (New York: Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, 2001), p. 73.
Peter Ronayne, Never Again? The United States and the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide since the Holocaust (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), pp. 17–18. Power, A Problem from Hell, pp. 64–5.
Paul S. Boyer ed., The Oxford Companion to United States History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 480
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Cooper, J. (2008). The United States Senate and the Convention. In: Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582736_14
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