The social history of the 1940s has until recently been ignored with many questions regarding the war being left unanswered. What is clear is that the war highlighted many existing problems that the African American had to face and as such there was a realization that the war provided a crisis in which civil rights could be fought for. There was an underlying ideology on behalf of the African American that if they fought for …showed first 75 words of 3503 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3503 total…Negro press calling for a more conservative approach to civil rights. It was this that in turn caused the attitude of the Supreme Court to change, and led to the landmark in American history of the Brown v Board of Education ruling in 1954. The Second World War had allowed the African American to gain an appetite for more prosperity and with its newly found assertiveness the African American would now not stand for anything less.