How was the civil rights movement influenced by the cold war?

The Cold War coincided with the civil rights movement in the United States and the anti-colonial movement in Asia and Africa. Thomas Borstelmann shows how both threatened to disrupt America's efforts to defeat communism. read more

Of course, the Civil Rights movement had plenty of other drivers besides the Cold War; the NAACP had been struggling against segregation nonstop for decades, and World War II and the Holocaust had turned millions of white Americans against racism. read more

But now many historians have found that there might be a connection between the cold war and the civil rights movement as these two events share the same time and place in history. Due to these recent findings about the cold war and the civil rights movement, historians are able to find answers many questions that were hard to answer before. read more

The cold war therefore created a necessity to tackle the civil rights issues in the United States (Dudziak, 2006, 8). The changes brought about by the cold war. The cold war had a lot of impacts on a number of countries around the world. read more