Hastening the Wheels of Change: International Cold War Pressure and Civil Rights Reform During the Truman Presidency
Journal: Digital Commons - Colby (Colby College)
Year: 2011

In the early Cold War arena, international pressure on the United States to live according to its ideological rhetoric enabled the Truman Administration to set a precedent for federal engagement in domestic civil rights reform. As the United States led the march to institutionalise human rights as the standard of moral legitimacy in the global arena, the country’s grisly record of racial oppression and violence invited foreign and domestic criticism alike. This paper intends to prove five discre