What group was angry that the American exhibit showed the United States moving toward integration?.
Who developed images and text promoting African American progress at the Brussels’ Trade Fair in 1958. Which African-Americans were involved in this project?
What group was angry that the American exhibit showed the United States moving toward integration?
Did the Department of States think negative news stories about how African Americans were treated would hurt the country’s standing overseas?
What was President Eisenhower’s response to the meeting he held with civil rights leaders in early 1958?
Had you heard of the Jimmy Wilson case before? Did the overseas outcry over this case influence how Mr. Wilson was treated?
How did whites in the U.S. government perceive African Americans’ progress in the late 1950s and early 1960s? Did they envision having to take direct action to assist that progress?
How did presidential candidate Kennedy finally show some support for civil rights near the end of the 1960s campaign? Do you know why he didn’t come out more forcefully for civil rights before he was elected president?
How did Kennedy and his advisers think that improvement would take place when it came to the treatment of African Americans?
What role did young people play in forcing change in national civil rights policy?
In 1961, foreign news coverage of civil rights violence in the U.S. had a surprising effect on President Kennedy. What was it?
Why was Robert Kennedy such an important person in the Kennedy administration?
When people of color came from foreign countries to live and work as diplomats or business people in Washington, D.C., or New York City, what issues did they face?
What group was angry that the American exhibit showed the United States moving toward integration?
