What relationship does President Eisenhower draw between events in the modern Civil Rights Movement and the goals of the United
States in waging the Cold War (Document 1)? 2. How does the Alcatraz Proclamation (Document 2) and the “The Soiling of Old Glory” photograph (Image 1) reflect the increasing radicalization of the Civil Rights Movement by the 1970s as well as the violent responses it could produce within Anglo American communities?
3. Based upon Eisenhower’s speech, how do you believe he would respond to Document 2 and Image 1 in the context of the Cold War?
1. Eisenhower convinced the people of the united states that if communism won, all the civil rights effort that was made by American people will go to waste and it will transform the country back to the period when Government could rule its people with tyranical method.
2 Both alcatraz proclamation and the soiling of Old Glory were a form of civil rights movement that was conducted in violent manner due to the radicalization of point of view among secluded social group. All of these occurences happened because of our failure as a society that fail to reach a certain condition that acceptable by all members of the society
3. He may believed that if the cold war managed to be won by the soviet union, the violent situation that depicted above may occur again in United States' soil which became his basic reasoning for fighting the communism ideology in the first place
Social services was unknown in the Hoover administration, the churches were the main means for people to get help. Wasn't until FDR, social security begun and the new deal provided jobs for people.
