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Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Broad in its focus, it looks at events in Washington, D.C., as well as the opposition to the boycott and how this attempted embargo affected the athletic contests in Moscow. Jimmy Carter based his foreign policy on assumptions that had fundamental flaws and reflected a superficial familiarity with the Olympic movement. These basic mistakes led to a campaign that failed to meet its basic mission objectives but did manage to insult the Soviets just enough to destroy détente and restart the Cold War. The book also includes a military history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which provoked the boycott, and an examination of the boycott's impact four years later at the Los Angeles Olympics, where the Soviet Union retaliated with its own boycott.

Sports and state --- Boycotts --- Cold War. --- World politics --- Boycott --- Consumer boycotts --- Secondary boycotts --- Consumer behavior --- Passive resistance --- Carter, Jimmy, --- Carter, James Earl, --- Carter, Hot, --- Kārtir, --- Kʻa-tʻe, --- Kartŭr, --- Kʻatʻŏ, Chimi, --- Kʻatʻŏ, Jimi, --- Kʻa-tʻe, Chi-mi, --- Kartėr, Dz︠h︡ymi, --- Olympic Games --- Games of the Olympiad --- Jeux de l'Olympiade --- Olympiadi --- Olympische Sommerspiele --- United States --- Soviet Union --- Foreign relations --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride chronicles the litigation and local organizing against segregated rails that led to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896 and the streetcar boycott movement waged in twenty-five southern cities from 1900 to 1907. Kelley tells the stories of the brave but little-known men and women who faced down the violence of lynching and urban

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History. --- Boycotts -- United States -- History. --- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History. --- New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations -- History. --- Richmond (Va.) -- Race relations -- History. --- Savannah (Ga.) -- Race relations -- History. --- Segregation in transportation -- United States -- History. --- United States -- Race relations -- History. --- African Americans --- Civil rights movements --- Segregation in transportation --- Boycotts --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Social Sciences --- Civil rights --- History --- History. --- United States --- New Orleans (La.) --- Richmond (Va.) --- Savannah (Ga.) --- Race relations --- Boycott --- Consumer boycotts --- Secondary boycotts --- Discrimination in transportation --- Civil liberation movements --- Liberation movements (Civil rights) --- Protest movements (Civil rights) --- Richmond City (Va.) --- City of Richmond (Va.) --- ريتشموند (Va.) --- Rītshmūnd (Va.) --- Горад Рычманд (Va.) --- Horad Rychmand (Va.) --- Рычманд (Va.) --- Rychmand (Va.) --- Ричмънд (Va.) --- Richmŭnd (Va.) --- Ρίτσμοντ (Va.) --- Ritsmont (Va.) --- 리치먼드 (Va.) --- Rich'imŏndŭ (Va.) --- ריצ'מונד (Va.) --- Rits'mond (Va.) --- Ричмонд (Va.) --- Ricmondia (Va.) --- Ričmonda (Va.) --- Ričmond (Va.) --- リッチモンド (Va.) --- Ritchimondo (Va.) --- Rychmond (Va.) --- Ričmonds (Va.) --- 里士满 (Va.) --- Lishiman (Va.) --- Nuova Orleans (La.) --- Nouvelle-Orléans (La.) --- City of New Orleans (La.) --- Cité d'Orléans (La.) --- Big Easy (La.) --- Crescent City (La.) --- La Nouvelle-Orléans (La.) --- NOLA (La.) --- Nawlins (La.) --- Neu Orleans (La.) --- Nieuw Orleans (La.) --- Neuva Orleans (La.) --- Nueva Orleans (La.) --- Consumer behavior --- Passive resistance --- Transportation --- Human rights movements --- Orleans Parish (La.) --- New Orleans, La. --- Savannah, Ga.