The Cold War affected the civil rights movement in all of the following ways EXCEPT
A) it led to the break-up of some civil rights movements and alliances due to purges of supposed communists.
B) it inspired civil rights activists to call on the U.S.government to fulfill its self-proclaimed role as leader of the free world by extending freedom to all its people.
C) it compelled presidents like Harry Truman to lash out against the civil rights movement and to dig in his heels against legislation intended to provide equal rights to blacks.
D) it gave opponents of black rights,particularly in the South,with the opportunity to smear civil rights organizations as "communist" without having to deal with the substance of the organizations' stances.
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