The African American Civil Rights Movement, 1960s

“[In 1963,] peaceful protests— and the violent backlash against them— had spread across the South, from lunch counter sit-ins and ‘Freedom Rides’ aimed at desegregating public places and interstate buses, to firebombing mobs and defiant public school boards that had closed their districts’ doors rather than mix black and white students. Rigid racial segregation remained a fact of law and life in the states of the Old Confederacy nearly a century after the War Between the States had ended.”

-Source: Todd S. Purdum, historian, An Idea Whose Time Has Come, 2014

The pattern described in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following developments during the 1960s?

(Choice A)
The National Guard enforced integration in southern schools.
(Choice B)
The federal government used its power to promote racial equality.
(Choice C)
The United Nations sanctioned the United States for civil rights violations.
(Choice D)
The state governors signed a petition to honor federal laws on civil rights.

AP®︎/College US History

Course: AP®︎/College US History > Unit 8

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