How did Truman's actions to advance civil rights affect his presidency and overall legacy? Be specific in your answer

What will be an ideal response?

The ideal answer should:
a. Recall that most modern presidents look to Truman as an example when they are struggling in the polls and are concerned about their presidential legacy, which is best understood as their place in history, and that those concerns shape how they perceive political choices, often leading them to focus on the long-term as opposed to the immediate.
b.Discuss how Truman came into office as a politician who was used to serving local interests and was forced to abandon the characteristics that had made him successful, and how he faced a range of challenges to his success, including a divided Congress, the need to end World War II and combat Soviet expansionism, and reintegration of returning GIs into American life.
c. Evaluate how two institutional aspects of the presidency, national outlook and concern over legacy, led Truman to take a more progressive stance on civil rights and freed him to challenge Southern Dixiecrats as being unrepresentative as the nation as a whole, noting that the deplorable treatment of African American veterans violated basic American principles and denigrated thestanding of the United States in the world.
d. Discuss how throughout this period, Truman maintained that he did not care about the polls and how this level of disinterest in the immediate consequences of his progressive civil rights stance may have freed his presidency to focus on large issues that mattered to the nation as a whole and allowed him to secure his place in history.