The Watts Riot (1965) revealed that many African Americans:
a. were willing to reject nonviolent protest.
b. could not vote even outside the South.
c. felt the police would not protect them from angry mobs of whites.
d. believed they could not become part of middle-class America until residential segregation ended.
ANSWER: a
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