ABSTRACT
For many people in the United States, Franklin Roosevelt had, in his 1941 State of the Union address, already articulated the outlines of a postwar moral leadership in the United States when he said that "the peoples look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms"—freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear (of war). The UN declaration of human rights furthered the idea that all of humanity was entitled to basic human rights. The struggle for human rights in South Africa played out on the international stage, in the media, and in popular culture over the course of many decades. Beginning in 1948, in response to a wartime migration of Black Africans to the cities in support of wartime manufacturing, the White minority passed legislation formally recognizing four racial groups in South Africa—White, Colored, Black, and Indian. Subsequent laws created separate living areas, prohibited intermarriage between races.
