The destabilization of the racial system during World War II; the mass migration out of the segregated South that made black voters an increasingly important part of the Democratic Party coalition and the Cold War and rise of independent states within the Third World which bridged the gap between American’s rhetoric and its racial reality an embarrassment internationally (Foner 957-960). There were various factors that made it possible for the rise of the civil rights movement and the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. for instance the Brown Case. The decision did not address segregation in institutions other than public schools or prohibit all racial classifications in the law, such as states that banned interracial marriage (Foner 962). Brown represented the evolving “Warren Court” as an active form of social change. However, Brown did not cause the modern civil rights movement, which, as mentioned in previous chapters, started during World War II and continued well into cities such as New York after the war. But the decision did make sure that when the movement continued after waning in the early 1950s, that is would have the support of the federal courts (Foner
The destabilization of the racial system during World War II; the mass migration out of the segregated South that made black voters an increasingly important part of the Democratic Party coalition and the Cold War and rise of independent states within the Third World which bridged the gap between American’s rhetoric and its racial reality an embarrassment internationally (Foner 957-960). There were various factors that made it possible for the rise of the civil rights movement and the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. for instance the Brown Case. The decision did not address segregation in institutions other than public schools or prohibit all racial classifications in the law, such as states that banned interracial marriage (Foner 962). Brown represented the evolving “Warren Court” as an active form of social change. However, Brown did not cause the modern civil rights movement, which, as mentioned in previous chapters, started during World War II and continued well into cities such as New York after the war. But the decision did make sure that when the movement continued after waning in the early 1950s, that is would have the support of the federal courts (Foner