Following the racial violence in Alabama and Mississippi in 1962 and 1963, President Kennedy

a. resisted making a commitment to reform
b. issued an executive order that ended segregation in the armed forces
c. ordered that public schools be desegregated
d. introduced congressional legislation to end segregation in public accommodations
e. took no action.


ANS: D

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