Is there a disabilities rights movement out there?

What implications do you see in the wedding of the Civil Rights Movement ato Cold War goals following WWII?

• Many US historians consider the Civil Rights Movement a Cold War version of Reconstruction. In the 1948 presidential election, Truman's advisors informed him that black voters were critical to his election. This meant that for the first time in US politics since 1876, black Americans were in a position to shape the political identity of the US government. Although Progressive Party candidate, Henry Wallace, had a far stronger record and platform on civil rights, most black voters chose Truman (90,000 to 21,000 in Harlem. Wallace got only 2000 votes in Pittsburgh. In the general election black voters in California, Ohio, and Illinois black voters were decisive in defeating Thomas Dewey, and giving Truman the presidency.) In 1951, the leading American black intellectual and leader, W.E.B. DuBois was arrested and his passport was confiscated by order of the Truman administration for his opposition to the Korean War. A federal judge dismissed all charges when the government failes to provide any evidence DuBois was a communist agent, but neither the black press nor NAACP, which he helped found, supported DuBois. By 1957, Republican President Eisenhower and Democratic Senate leader Lyndon Johnson crafted as weak a Civil Rights bill as politically possible, yet Johnson made Civil Rights a matter of central importance in his Great Society programs following the assassination of JFK in 1963. By the time of the Nixon and Carter administrations, the promise of Black Reconstruction had failed. What implications do you see in the wedding of the Civil Rights Movement to Cold War goals following WWII? Is there a perspective on the Cold War and Civil Rights that helps explain the rise and fall of a national commitment to civil rights?

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  All are part of the govenerment conspiracy to control the human race