What events in the late 1940s set the stage for the civil rights movement?

What come to mind for me is the Cold War. America was fighting for equal rights in eastern Europe and other places under Soviet/Communist infulence, and yet there were not equal rights for every one in America, especially for African-Americans in the south.

states began imposing duties on each other's goods. congress had no way to raise money for an army to expel them.

the ss was the main organization responsible for the genocidal murder of around six million people of european ethnic minorities, essentially jews, in the holocaust. the members of all its branches committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the second world war (1939-1945). likewise, the ss were involved in commercial enterprises and exploited the inmates of the concentration camps as slave laborers.

the tortures and assassinations committed by the ss were the result of an ideology developed long before the armed conflict, this ideology was based on the racial supremacy of the germans over the rest.