Which statement best describes the Eisenhower Administration's role in the civil rights movement?
a. Eisenhower himself pressured courts to apply Brown v. Board of Education as broadly as possible.
b. Vice President Richard Nixon called for a law that would make the federal government responsible for registering black voters.
c. Attorney General Herbert Brownell drafted the 1957 Civil Rights Act that created a Civil Rights Commission.
d. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles claimed that segregation laws in the United States encouraged newly emerging African states to go Communist.
ANSWER: c
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