Within days of President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act into law, the arrest of a black man in Los Angeles:
A) led to the first application of the new law.
B) touched off several days of deadly rioting.
C) focused the attention of civil rights activists on the cities of the west.
D) slowed implementation of the new legislation.
Answer: B
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