ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines whether what would black voice and presence have made for a different foreign policy; a different, a better world. For a quarter century after World War II, both African-Americans and the Department of State struggled with the issues of race and civil rights. For over five decades of American history, years in which international relations often dominated the thoughts and the resources of the nation, the black voice and presence were virtually excluded from the national debate over foreign policy and the bureaucracies that implemented that policy. An article in Black Enterprise declared that, the foreign service, perhaps the last bastion of international elitism, is finally becoming a feasible career choice for black Americans. It is now nearly thirty years since the end of the 1960s, and the old charges and countercharges, the old wounds and the old denials are still being aired.
