Martin Luther King Jr. rose to leadership in the civil rights movement during the 1950s. His strategies, different from those of the recent past, would become the primary techniques of the civil rights movement into the 1960s. What is the most accurate summary of this transition in the movement?
A. King proposed nonviolent confrontation instead of solely relying on the NAACP's strategy of legal challenges to segregation in the courts.
B. Direct and often violent confrontation replaced nonviolent passive resistance.
C. King's rhetorical skills on TV, rather than organized action, caught the nation's attention.
D. King appealed directly to President Eisenhower to lend his support to efforts to speed up desegregation.
Answer: A
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