How Did The Cold War Impact On Civil Rights

World War II and the Cold War have made an impact on civil right and society during those times. Before World War II, African Americans and women did not have the same rights so this war gave them a chance to show that they were important too in this country. The Cold War continued making a change in the civil rights movement for African Americans to stop segregation and racism, also with gender equality issues that was a barrier for many people.

African Americans before World War II were treated unfair so they did not had the same opportunities than others. Whenever the war started there was an opportunity for them to go to college and later on work at jobs that were high on demand because of the war, in a way the war was getting help from

Until Martin Luther King, Jr., became an important leader who organized boycotts, protests, in order to make the Civil Rights Movement stand out against the people who were against it (Class Notes). Gender Equality was better doing the Cold War, they did not have to do household chores or stay at home all the time, women were filling up jobs that they never did before, doing jobs to contribute to the war, these were strong women that were independent who just wanted to have the same equality as men, and respect as they were able to do the same jobs as men; even better at some jobs. A class of mechanical designing at Howard University located in Washington D.C. trained men and women for jobs in the plants that made our tanks, guns and machines for the war (WWII Civil Rights Readings PDF). Also, during this time the younger generation seemed to be more rebellious like how Elvis Presley used to perform and a lot people would judge him because they said his moves were to explicit and not appropriate for the audience (1950s Nonconformity), this shows how many things were changing in the United States; not only equality. In Howard University, the agriculture department even added a course in farm management for women, they would plant corn on the college farm as they learn to operate farm equipment (WWII Civil Rights Readings PDF). Women were taking over at the factories, because before the end of 1943 industry hired and gave training to more than 5 million additional women for production jobs (WWII Civil Rights Readings PDF). Not only at steel factories but also there has been army jobs that women have perform as effectively as men or they can even do these jobs much better than the man. Even after war, many of these women would stay working after their husbands got back home from war,