The Rhetoric Of The Transnational Civil Rights Movement

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The rhetoric of the Second World War had tremendous impact on the transnational Civil Rights movement. This was especially evident in the rhetoric from the United States and Canada response, given their fierce opposition to Nazi Germany. The Allies (Canada, The United States and the United Kingdom) responded to fighting against Nazi Germany by calling for the “defense of democracy”. This was manifested by the President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) in the Four Freedoms Speech in January of 1941 that proposes the four fundamental rights that people everywhere ought to enjoy. They were the freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. The consequences of the Four Freedoms Speech had