1962 October War and racial equality

How would a Cuban Missile War have affected the progress of racial inequality?

  • Equality would have been retarded

    Votes: 7 70.0%
  • Equality would have progressed about like OTL

    Votes: 2 20.0%
  • Equality would have been accelerated

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • Other (please explain in comment)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    10
Yeah, here I go on my favorite PoD again.
If the Cuban Missile Crisis had blown up, what effect would this have on the then nascent struggle for racial equality? This is probably the most important American social change of the decade (maybe even the generation) following the PoD in OTL.
 
Are major northern urban centers destroyed? It's my understanding that a Cuban Missile War would leave most of the United States relatively unscathed, as the Soviet Union lacked the military capacity to hit the American core at the time (Europe is another story). But I don't know specifics.

The Civil Rights Movement as we know it was the product of large amounts of urban minorities outside of the South gaining access to education, economic pull, and voting rights before and during the post-war boom. Once this intelligensia transformed into a political leadership, capable of organizing national movements, they were able to exert pressure and expose the hypocrisy of the United States, which was trying to win over the world in the court of public opinion against the Soviet Union. If urban centers are wiped out, social progress, racial and otherwise, is going to be ground to a halt. If they aren't, then I'd expect movements to resume once the war and the aftermath has been dealt with sufficiently.
 
I figure that after the war will come what Studs Terkel called "Hard Times". Squared. Maybe cubed. Hard times do not seem conducive to progressivism.
Loli American: AFAIK the Soviet strategy was countervalue. They will try to destroy every American city they can. They won't get all, but they will get some.
 
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