Responses of the federal and state authorities to civil rights- Truman.
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- Responses of the federal and state authorities to civil rights- Truman.
- Campaigners expected little given southern background
- Came from former slave state of Missouri where Jim Crow Laws were still in place
- Despite this Truman believed in fairness
- In 1940- gave a speech whilst seeking re-election declaring he believed in 'Brotherhood' between black and white men before the law
- Worked in Jackson County public office- saw the problems faced by African Americans in urban areas
- Proclaimed horror at treatment of black soldiers returning from the war- beaten and thrown out of trucks
- Growing media coverage - encouraged him to act
- 1946- he established 'The President's Committee on Civil Rights'
- Told its members he wanted a Bill of Rights to become a reality
- 1946- he established 'The President's Committee on Civil Rights'
- Growing media coverage - encouraged him to act
- Despite this Truman believed in fairness
- Came from former slave state of Missouri where Jim Crow Laws were still in place
- 'To Secure these Rights' 1947
- Scathing attack on all aspects of discrimination both in North and particularly in the South
- Education
- Housing
- Public facilities
- Parks, Waiting rooms, Water fountains
- Voting Rights in prime areas of discrimination
- Truman responded by giving a radical civil rights speech to a joint session of congress in February 1948
- Asked congress to support measures such as federal protection against lynching, protection of the right to vote, and permanent and better funded FEPC
- Electorally risky, given the presence of dixiecrat congressmen
- Never properly implemeted
- Contributed to narrowness of election- divided party over race issue
- Scathing attack on all aspects of discrimination both in North and particularly in the South
- Opposition from fellow Democrats
- Head was head of the party which held a wide spectrum of beliefs
- Extreme racists: James O Eastland, Strom Thurmond, Fielding L Wright and Herman Talmadge
- Aware that keeping segregation kept a certain group of voters, balked at the idea of a Civil Rights Movement
- Little media coverage, much of campaigning came through NAACP in courts
- His efforts were met with obstruction and delay by southern politicians
- Covered their racism by saying they were defending the right of the states from federal interference
- Extreme racists: James O Eastland, Strom Thurmond, Fielding L Wright and Herman Talmadge
- Head was head of the party which held a wide spectrum of beliefs
- The wider political context
- Republican party saw no need to engage in Civil Rights- Eisenhower barely mentioned the issue during his 1952 campaign
- Internationally,segregationist attitudes were damaging the US reputation
- Collapse of Europena empires was creating independent new countires in Africa and Asia who would hold influence at the UN and were being wooed by the Soviet Union- increasing pressure on President to be seen to act.
- Campaigners expected little given southern background
- Despite this Truman believed in fairness
- In 1940- gave a speech whilst seeking re-election declaring he believed in 'Brotherhood' between black and white men before the law
- Worked in Jackson County public office- saw the problems faced by African Americans in urban areas
- Proclaimed horror at treatment of black soldiers returning from the war- beaten and thrown out of trucks
- Growing media coverage - encouraged him to act
- 1946- he established 'The President's Committee on Civil Rights'
- Told its members he wanted a Bill of Rights to become a reality
- 1946- he established 'The President's Committee on Civil Rights'
- Growing media coverage - encouraged him to act
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