The Cold War and Civil Rights (1946-1975)

The Cold War was to be a long lasting and continuing confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States.
It was called the Cold War because neither the Soviet Union nor the United States officially declared war on each other

United States's portrayal of itself as the "leader of the free world" when so many of its citizens were the object of racial discrimination

Leadders within US realised they were going to have to make changes on…