Transnationalism and domestic civil rights movement?

For me, the most interesting article in this week is Duziak's Brown as a Cold War Case. As my classmates mentioned before in their comments, this article examines a connection between diplomatic concerns and domestic civil rights activities showing transnational perspective.
The notion that Duziak argues in this article is definitely provocative, but as prof. Herzberg pointed out, now I think no one can disregard transnational view point when they study civil rights movement. In this article, Duziak says that "the Cold War simutaneously harmed the movement and created an opportunity for limited reform"(41; emphasis in the original). It does not mean that the Cold War did only good things or only bad things for civil rights movement, but that there was an interaction between international thing and domestic thing. Actually, after we read this, we cannot consider domestic thing as just merely domestic. This is a significance of this article.