The Albany Movement of 1961 failed for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
a. the political clout of local segregationists ensured that the federal government would not intervene.
b. the local police chief shrewdly undermined the protests by advising his men not to use open violence and by distributing arrested protestors across numerous jails.
c. the movement focused too narrowly on desegregation and ignored other pressing issues such as unemployment and police brutality.
d. the movement itself began to fracture, as SNCC, SCLC, and the NAACP began to turn against each other.
c. the movement focused too narrowly on desegregation and ignored other pressing issues such as unemployment and police brutality.
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