Answer to Question #108608 in History for .

Question

Despite the major economic advancements that the New Deal and Great Society proposed, what did declarations such as President Truman's Executive Order 9981 and the Supreme Court's ruling on Brown v. Board of Education reveal about the relationship between race and the American identity?

Answer 1

The white identity is revealed to be contextual and episodic. Before President Trumen took over, racial segregation in the U.S. was a reality. The U.S was a white dominant nation. However, the declaration Order 0091 and the court ruling on Brown v. Board of Education made all Americans to believe in President’s Truman’s words, “that every man should be free to live his life as he wishes. He should be limited only by his responsibility to his fellow countrymen. If this freedom is to be more than a dream, each man must be guaranteed equality of opportunity. The only limit to an American’s achievement should be his ability, his industry, and his character. These rewards for his effort should be determined only by those truly relevant qualities.