After the Cold War, the UN General Assembly created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by a committee chaired by Elanor Roosevelt. The document identified a series of rights that should be guranteed to everyone including “freedom of speech, religious toleration, and protection against arbitary governement”, and most importantly, “the right to an adequate standard of living and access to housing, education, and medical care” (Foner 909). The United States, which held a dominate role in the world to prevent the spread of …show more content…
The Canadians were even more symphathetic for him. They were willing to help Williams fight against the authories who were trying to return him “to the violence, brutality and racial oppression of the South” and even hired lawyers in Canada “to take immediate legal action in the event of” his arrest (104). Williams decided not to stay in Canada, but to flee to Cuba, where “ a Negro would be treated as a human being; where the race problem would be understood; and where people would not look upon me as a criminal, but as a victim”