Unformatted text preview: Cold War Civil Rights
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● ● Segregation makes the United States look like hypocrites
The Soviet Union will use these questionable morals to help spread communism
Post WWII era, many countries are no longer under colonial control. These nations are
independent for the first time
○ “3rd World Countries” or “Unaligned Nations”
“The American Dilemma”
○ The US would
1947, the US releases “To Secure These Rights”
○ Four Essential Rights
The passing of Brown vs The Board of Education made huge international news and was used for
American propaganda
○ After the positive propaganda, states start to pass dog whistle politics like the “pupil
placement laws” that won’t make headlines
Paul Robeson
○ Famous singer, athlete, lawyer, actor, and activist
○ Very active political figure
○ HUAC takes his passport so he can’t spread the word of how segregation is still rampant
in the US
WEB Dubois, William Patterson, Josephine Baker, and William Worthy all lose their passports
James O. Eastland
○ Bigot from Mississippi that uses accusations of communism to check the civil rights
movement
○ Chairman of SISS
Popular Front
○ Communist party outreach mechanism that is used to gain members ...
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- Fall '17
- Felix Harcourt
- Cold War
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