Truman established the President's Committee on Civil Rights after
A) ?W.E.B. Du Bois appealed to him personally to address the nation's racial problems.
B) a group of South Carolinian police officers who senselessly beat an African-American veteran were acquitted by an all-white jury.
C) ?he saw moving images of racially motivated beatings in the South captured on camera.
D) there had been several pro-Civil Rights demonstrations in Washington, D.C.
E) ?None of these are correct.
B
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