ABSTRACT
All American blacks had a responsibility to work for anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism arid to oppose obstructionist American foreign policy. Yet American black leaders’ attitudes toward colonialism and the Cold War provide evidence of how the prism of race could produce a view of world affairs which was at variance with the dominant American position. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), clearly the dominant organization in the Negro protest movement since the demise of the March on Washington Movement and the deterioration of the National Negro Congress, continued its assault on colonialism. The NAACP refused to restrict its criticism to Truman’s colonial policies. In its first editorial after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, the Crisis implied that racism had played a part in the decision and wondered if the United States possessed the moral capability to lead the world to peace and security.
