The Holocaust made American hypocrisy on racial prejudice publicly salient

Evidence

The world was still reeling from the events of the Second World War in which unspeakable atrocities were perpetrated against Jews because they were Jews. The Holocaust, largely viewed as a crime against humanity, led many Americans to seriously question the morality of group-based prejudice. How could the nation fight against such crimes against humanity while, on its own soil, entire groups of people were denied rights and opportunities because of their skin color? Quite simply, the American Creed, although revered in the abstract, was being violated in practice. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2083

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the moral-crisis dynamic in the reader’s article on sacrifice and the psychology of atonement. — connects to: Exiled Frankfurt School members found American social anti-Semitism worse than German — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 2152
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2083