African Americans During The Cold War

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No only during the Cold War, for the most part America has a lengthley bigotry history. America is a beautiful country that was somewhat founded on discrimination. For years, especially during the Cold War, America tends to contradict themselves. For example, the Soviet Union or U.S.S.R, strongly challenged America’s self-proclaimed Leader of the Free World. Soviet Union argument was how can America argue “Free World” when African Americans were being unjust in their very own country.
While the Cold War was raging, African Americans used rhetoric to try and be tread how they dissevered to be treated. The equality for African Americans verse the equality for the white men in the United States was total different. African Americans went a

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