As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, the NAACP and African-American leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in the United States.
Only the Human Rights lexicon, shaped by the Holocaust and articulated by the United Nations, contained the language and the moral power to address not only t.
The ``prize`` they sought was not civil rights, but Human rights.
As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, the NAACP and African-American leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in the United States
