Which of the following was NOT an oppressive White response to Black emancipation immediately following the Civil War?
a. Black people, even elderly women such as Rosa Parks, were required to give their bus seats to White people.
b. The Ku Klux Klan and local vigilante groups conducted raids, lynchings, beatings, and burnings.
c. The courts were much more likely to send Blacks to prison than Whites.
d. Overt slavery was replaced with a more covert kind of slavery: sharecropping.
Answer: a. Black people, even elderly women such as Rosa Parks, were required to give their bus seats to White people.
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