A further reason for the slow progress was the costs of the cold war. Harry Truman involved in a cold war fighting against communism, recognized that racism at home contradicted American claims to lead the “free world”. Reasoning for this being not as important as important as the previous two factors would be that the other contributed to the civil rights movement more than the cold war and the cold war didn’t slow down the civil rights movement as much as the other factors. The cold war didn’t have an impact on everyone whereas De Factor Prejudices did. Harry Truman linked he cold war to America’s race relationships. With America facing a serious threat of communism and their policy of containment the federal bureau but all civil rights movement under close scrutiny. The civil rights movement had to spend money to fight any public association with communism assigned to them. This divided and slowed down the whole civil rights movement, only with the decline of the cold war in late 1960s could the civil rights movement stand up to activism. However this is a less important reason as the cold war relations calmed down after late 1960 opening new doors for the civil rights movement.
The Final reason for the slow progress was De Facto Prejudices- over coming resistance
Civil rights suffered many factors of resistance one being from the White Citizens Council which was formed on July 11th 1956. Members were mostly southern and the council had over 60,000 members the councils tactics included propaganda and occasionally violence. Another factor was a revival within the ku Klux klan in the less than a year after the Brown case, Emmett Till a 14 year old boy was lynched for being black the murders were found not guilty by an all- white jury despite campaigns by the NAACP. Not only were groups set up against the movement but also President Eisenhower criticised the