One of the reasons race riots broke out in the mid-1960s was that:
a. segregation laws denied black people access to most public facilities.
b. the decline of unskilled jobs led to increased unemployment.
c. whites feared that black people were abandoning northern cities.
d. the federal government had shown no interest in black people's problems.
ANSWER: b
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