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's rhetorical skills on TV, rather than organized action, caught the nation's attention.
B. Direct and often violent confrontation replaced nonviolent passive resistance.
C. King proposed nonviolent confrontation instead of solely relying on the NAACP's strategy of legal challenges to segregation in the courts.
D. King appealed directly to President Eisenhower to lend his support to efforts to speed up desegregation.
Answer: C
You might also like to view...
American imperialism met its most serious resistance in
a. Hawaii. b. Cuba. c. Japan. d. the Philippines. e. South Africa.
Which feature of the Presidency is a result of a constitutional amendment?
a. two-term limit in office b. power to appoint ambassadors c. duty to act as Commander in Chief d. responsibility to nominate Justices to the Supreme Court
Roman family law was very strict and did not allow women to own their own property
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Creole refers to a white immigrant of French descent.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)