From these articles, it is clear that many groups around the world took part in the Civil Rights movement. The Communist Party took part in the Scottsboro Trials, informing the nation and the rest of the world about the injustices done to the Scottsboro boys by taking Ada Wright on a tour through Europe in order to tell her story. Black Women and the feminist movement supported the black fight for equality around the world, hosting conventions where Black Women delegates from all corners of the country where women of darker skin resided in order to spread and gain information about the Black struggle in different countries. Despite the Vietnam War occurring at the same time as Apartheid, the Black community was able to maintain the international focus of their fight for equality, affecting Black people around the world, in addition, the Civil Rights movement in the US. All of this leading to Black scholars like WEB Dubois to push for political and social equality within America and shine a light on the irony of Black oppression and the American ideal of equality.

The fact that these international groups aren't more heavily focused on by mainstream education shows our divided sense of national identity and history. Our systems of teaching the Civil Rights movement have been corrupted by a nationalist identity that wants to protect a 'perfect', white image of America. As a result, our national identity is one that is inherently exclusionary, and biased. As Jill Lepore states in her article, A New Americanism, if we don't have historians telling an unbiased and truthful narrative of history that is told from all perspectives, we will end up with charlatans and liars telling history in the way they want to, by telling a white focused history and preserving their false national identity.