"Beginning in the 1930s and lasting into the 1940s, black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance... Chicago had become a major destination for black southern migrants. It was also an urban industrial center. This
fact gave a unique working-class and internationalist perspective to the cultural
work that would take place there....
"A desire to live freely in the metropolis' continued to characterize the aspirations of migrants as second-wave Chicago migrants arrived... The 1930s and 1940s witnessed a resurgence of black working-class political
radicalism that was captured and reflected in the expressive visual and literary productions of Chicago Black
Renaissance artists."
Which of the following most likely contributed to the decline of the "political radicalism" referred to in the excerpt?
The drafting of young men to fight in Vietnam
Racial discrimination in the United States armed forces during the Second World War
Anticommunist measures during the Cold War
Neglect of Black artists and culture during the New Deal
Darlene Clark Hine, historian, The Black Chicago Renaissance, 2012