African Americans and the Cold War.

Compare the two articles and comment on how the wintry War impacted upon African the Statesns during the asses. Historic all toldy, the treatment of African Americans was atrocious unfair and dehumidifying. Throughout the asses, this racial variety was noisily protested against and the recognition from governments allowed the African American voice to reach its zenith.The nippy War and the intense ideological disputes between the United States and the Soviet Union aided in the strengthened awareness towards his inequality and take to a slight advancement of the societal position for African Americans. However, with the improvement of the African American voice, coincident with the war at hand, came governmental fear, resulting in public manipulation and covert force. African Americans lived in a consciously limited and divided world, which stifled their individuality and independence.Richard Wright, a pitch non-whiteness who lived through this mistreatment, became the first N egro to highlight the injustice through protest writing. Wright was the angriest, most honest and outspoken black writerl f the time and his books offer insight into the lengths of racial discrimination and inequality he and other pitch-darks were subjected to. He made it clearer than any black American writer had ever done that as a black man he was not allowed and not able to feel that he was a full-blooded American2, provided if was expected to adhere to the enforced racial hierarchy and live his life acting out a demeaning and ludicrous role3.Life for African Americans consisted of constant degradation, with daily insults and petty humiliations4, and customary segregation the Blacks of America ere inhi splinteringed from employment opportunities, denied good education, forced to sit behind Anglo-Saxons (Whites) in public transportation, with enforced racially segregated public housing and most hotels and eateries macrocosm closed to those of African descent. Ultimately, the possibilities for African Americans were limited and they were principally treated as inferior beings.The snappy War tactically exposed the United States practice of vernacular inequality and discrimination. The conflict between political ideologies (Communism vs. McCarthy/Democracy) during the War established a central foundation for the presence towards racial equality. In an attempt to gain more party members, the Communist Party capitalized on the African Americans protests circulating petitions on police brutality, employment discrimination, and anticipating legislation Trying to gauge individuals openness (to the Communist Party)5.They vigorously and passionately lashed the United States for their treatment of the Blacks while actively promoting a racial Justice agenda6 pushing for unions to include Negroes, campaigning for the desegregation of sousing, encouraging black writers and artists and providing opportunities for black leadership. With the promise to combat raci sm, and being the only white organization in the country that paid serious attention to the issues of race and cultured rights7, Communism attracted more membership, especially from those of African descent with the proportion of Black members doubling.With the numbers supporting the American government declining and the difficulty sustaining the smooth image of racial progress8, the government made every stew to counter the Soviets propaganda. The American politics depraved the Soviets assertions with a public declaration stating that despite certain inequalities and conditions which exist, the American way of life provides ample opportunity to correct these conditions through democratic processesThe American Negro, down to the poorest sharecropper, is break in off than the vast majority of Stalins subjects9 while the US embassies and consulates throughout the world distributed booklets showing the swell progress that had been made on race matters10. As the propaganda hostility dominated naturalspapers and generic conversation, the United States developments awards civilized rights were largely and continuously broadcasted, with the Americans Making much mileage out of the Supreme Courts school-desegregation decision in 195411.Essentially, the Cold War heightened the awareness of racial discrimination and made the unfairness an international issue. The open rebellion against racial prejudice in the United States, meshing with Cold War concerns, evoked fears within the United States government. The American government grew suspicious of internal communist subversion and as a result the loyalty of all free men, and especially the loyalty of African Americans was deemed questionable.With this anxiety, came the intrusion of the loyalty program. This program, introduced by President Harry. S. Truman and adopted by Senator Joseph McCarthy, established a framework for a wide-ranging and powerful government apparatus the Federal representation of Investigatio ns to perform loyalty checks on every employee. If the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) had reasonable grounds to doubt an employees allegiance, he or she would be dismissed.The FBI could not tolerate independent thinkers either, as there was one thing considered every bit as bad as being a Red (communist), and hat was being a Black who spoke out against American racism12, thus individuals who had been active in progressive causes, particularly in the African American freedom struggle, were targeted and disproportionately affected13. Richard Wright and Annie Lee Moss are two African Americans who were subjected to the problematic terror of the Loyalty Programs investigations.Both Wright and Moss held supporting attitudes towards the progression of civil rights. In the early ass Wright was under US government surveillance, assumed for his books protesting against racial scarification, and one Sunday in April 1953, Wright was questioned by a member from the Senate tribunal Co mmittee about his subversive books and his association with the Communist Party, asked to inform on others Receiving a warning that he could be subpoenaed in front of McCarthy committee14.Wrights books were, and all rebellious books, were removed from the United States Information profit libraries a subtle way the government silenced opponents. Annie Lee Moss, whom experienced accusations of disloyalty, was used and still mud an enduring symbol of Cold War politics1 5. Annie Lee Moss was a clerk in the General Accounting Office (GAO), working in close proximity to sensitivity information, and was, it seemed, living trial impression of the possibilities of the American (African) dream.Moss encountered several accusations of being a member of the communist party, and was suspended from her Job twice, only to be reinstated when the GAO Loyalty Board determined there were no reasonable grounds to believe that she was disloyal16. The allegations and pureness of Moss was biblically br oadcasted on March 1954, when Edward R. Morrow dedicated an episode of his television news how, See It Now, to her appearance before Senator Joseph McCarthy unceasing Subcommittee on Investigations17.The broadcast demonstrated that McCarthy carelessness threatened the rights of American citizens, but that there were others in the American government committed to defending those rights18. With the increased amount of hope for African Americans, came new forms of discriminatory struggles. The Cold War had a pivotal impact on life for African Americans. Though the Blacks of America were victims of new forms of discrimination, ultimately, the Cold War revealed the contradictions in American democracy how could the United