how did the actions of FDR and truman, as well as the Double V campaign,lead to the emergencies if the modern civil rights movement in the late 1940's and 1950's?

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Although the New Deal of the 1940s did not directly address the needs of African Americans in the Great Depression and discriminated against African Americans, the New Deal DID provide some relief for African Americans; just enough to swing their political loyalty from the Republican Party (party of Lincoln) to the Democrat Party. A. Philip Randolph, a prominent Civil Rights leader known as the "father of the civil rights movement" and union leader, pressured FDR to implement several civil rights policies during the early part of World War II, demanding that FDR grant 1) equal access to defense jobs, 2) desegregation of the armed forces, and 3) an end to segregation in federal agencies. Randolph threatened to lead a March on Washington to protest for these changes (he will later lead the 1963 March on Washington where MLK gives the "I Have a Dream" speech). FDR, concerned that a march world take attention from the war effort, issued Executive Order 8802 and established the Fair Employment Practices Committee that ended ended segregation in defense contracting agencies. Randolph, after the war, continued to place pressure on Truman, leading to the executive order ending segregation in the armed forces in 1948.

The Double-V Campaign was a civil rights effort tied to World War II. Prominent civil rights leaders believed that World War II offered an opportunity to jump-start civil rights by their contribution to victory in Europe would help lead to victory for civil rights at home (thus, double-V). As a result of exceptional military service by African Americans, such as Vernon J. Baker and the Tuskegee Airmen, civil rights leaders argued that African Americans fought for freedom abroad in Europe and yet did not have that freedom at home. That contradiction, in addition to increasingly liberal justices being appointed to the Supreme Court by FDR and Truman, contributed to the emergence of the Civil Rights movement in the late 1940s and early 1950s.