| Sumario: | The article questions historical scholarship supporting the view that anticommunism during the Cold War and the Communist Party of the United States of America (CP) had a key impact on the civil rights movement in the U.S. The author argues that the post-World War II coalition of liberal labor and civil rights activists was never as strong as its historians suggest, and suggests that the CP's approach and ideology during this time led to its own decline and the decline of the coalition. Other topics include black civil rights leaders Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and civil rights unionism.
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