To shore up support in the black community during the 1948 presidential race, Harry Truman:
A) announced wide-ranging civil rights proposals that included anti-lynching legislation and a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee.
B) announced a federal war on poverty.
C) called for a new war against Jim Crow segregation in the South.
D) asked that black delegates from southern states be seated at the Democratic National Convention.
Question 2
In 1947, ________ submitted to the United Nations an Appeal to the World, a document detailing the consequences of racial discrimination against African Americans.
A) W. E. B. Du Bois
B) Eleanor Roosevelt
C) Paul Robeson
D) Rayford Logan
