ABSTRACT
The organizations, representing over eight million African Americans, vowed to move on all fronts to secure civil and human rights. Milton Konvitz would write on the legal rights of African Americans, Dickerson on the denial of those rights from 1783 to 1917. Robert Ming would follow up with an exploration of the present inferior legal and social status of African Americans, and Logan would conclude with the responsibility of the United Nations to protect human rights. James F. Byrnes, a staunch Dixiecrat who believed that African Americans should have “neither political equality nor social equality,” could hardly be an effective standard bearer for a foreign policy based on decolonization and human rights. In short, the struggles for human and civil rights were interwoven, and African Americans were determined to bring about human rights and decolonization in the postwar world.
