Background:
Following World War II, tensions of Bolshevism permeating through the United States ran high. Americans quickly shifted from the former anti-german mindset to a new anti-soviet mindset and alarmingly refused any change to the federal system. The people feared that African Americans returning from the war would ultimately bring with them a soviet mindset. This reintegration of whites and blacks resulted inevitably resulted in the Red Summer and Race Riots of 1919.
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"The American Negro returning from abroad would be our greatest medium in conveying bolshevism to America." -Woodrow Wilson
As the tensions of the recombination of the whites and blacks flared, prominent individuals of the time began to write to influence the people. A freedom fighter, W.E.B. Dubois wrote
"We return from the slavery of uniform which the world's madness demanded us to don to the freedom of civil garb. We stand again to look America squarely in the face and call a spade a spade. We sing: This country of ours, despite all its better souls have done and dreamed, is yet a shameful land.... |