The NAACP redefined racial justice as a domestic matter tied to anti-communism

Evidence

Walter White made a choice. He criticized Robeson’s efforts, accusing him of confusing “the public mind,” and tried to quash any further attempt to link black freedom in the United States to global struggles (a view that defined much of the politics of the previous decades—including his own and that of the NAACP). The United States had to assert its moral leadership in the world, and that required, White claimed, ending racial discrimination at home. The country’s oldest civil rights organization now believed that racial justice was a domestic matter—one that meant aligning our practices with national ideals and embracing anti-communism. It drew a line in the sand too. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 450

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the concrete origin of the ‘black liberal compact’ — a definitional anchor for the reader’s stated goal.