HIST 150C3 1st Edition Lecture 20 World War II and the Modern Civil Rights MovementU.S. Presidents and WW2 Race RelationsFranklin Delano Roosevelt-Fair Employment Practices Committee Designed and organized to investigate discrimination within industryCommittee on Civil Rights1. Wants anti-lynching bill, Truman says no2. Truman should work to end voter discrimination3. Desegregate militaryDe-segregation of the military, 1948-Truman does this July 26, 1948-based on proposal by committee on civil rightsWhite Democratic Response in the SouthStates’ Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats)-3rd party formed-opposed integration-for: permanent of political segregation-formed because they thought Jim Crow was being threatened by the government-large success, limited to the south“Segregation Forever!”-states’ rights party’s sloganThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Strom Thurmond, South Carolina-governor of South Carolina in 1948-received 1 electoral vote from
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