ABSTRACT
Cold war tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union eventually muted Afro-American support for decolonization. Afro-American organizations took particular interest in the Dumbarton Oaks proposals for postwar international organization that grew out of discussions between the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union in late August and early October 1944. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., announced that the American delegation would support amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks proposals that would guarantee freedom from discrimination on account of “race, language, religion, or sex". The United States had also agreed to support a trusteeship system but only for areas with League of Nations mandates, territories taken from the enemy in the war, or mandates and protectorates that nations might voluntarily surrender to the international organization. Du Bois later wrote that the cold war ruptured ties between Afro-Americans and Africa.
