The Negro Has Always Wanted The Four Freedoms

The United States has always seemed to be in a constant state of change and one of the largest evolutions that America has undergone in its history was at the end of World War II. Many different things came from the Second World War but the most prevalent change was the new outlook that many Americans took on demanding equality. So many different voices were suddenly shouting from the rooftops to the government from women, African Americans, Hispanics and all other races that made up the melting pot of races that the United Stated had become that was not White. With so many different voices that demanded to be heard, there were many different perspectives on which direction the government should take on recreating the definition of equality. Two competing perspectives in this time came from Charles H. Wesley and Henry R. Luce, who both had dynamically different ideas
Wesley, an African American man, his focus was on the battle that was still being fought on U.S. soil that every minority faces both in the public and the work place. In the first line of his article “The Negro has Always Wanted the Four Freedoms”, Wesley states that “Negros have wanted what other citizens of the United States have wanted. They have wanted freedom and opportunity”. In the war over seas and on home soil, everyone did their part to support the war to defend this great nation but not everyone was treated equally despite their willing participation in defending the American dream that was not fully granted to them. For Charles the battle was here, so his focus was on the changes that should be made here in the United States. The war was to defend freedom and bring justice to those who are doing wrong, which was a doubled edged sward for the minorities of this country because they were not granted the same freedoms and justice white men were granted. This is where Charles voiced his opinion on the unfair practices that were happening all around and for him the war was