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AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE COLD WAR[ge1] .
Historically, the treatment of African Americans was atrocious: unfair and dehumanizing. Throughout the 1950s, this racial discrimination was noisily protested against and the recognition from governments allowed the African American voice to reach its zenith. The Cold War and the intense ideological disputes between the United States and the Soviet Union aided in the strengthened awareness towards this inequality and led to a slight advancement of the societal position for African Americans. However, with the improvement of the African American voice, coinciding with the war at hand, came governmental fear, resulting in public manipulation and covert force. African American’s lived in a consciously limited and divided world, which stifled their individuality and independence.
Richard Wright, a Negro who lived through this mistreatment, became the first Negro to highlight the injustice through protest writing. Wright “was the angriest, most honest and outspoken black writer”1 of the time and his books offer insight into the lengths of racial discrimination and inequality he and other Blacks were subjected to. He made it “clearer than any black American writer had ever done that as a black man he was not allowed and not able to feel that he was a ‘full-b