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PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S

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In the Spring of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. organized a nonviolent protest in Birmingham. The resulting excessive and violent white supremist reaction to these protests was significant not only because it represented an escalation in the level of violence on the part of the South against the modern civil rights movement, but also because
A
It justified the armed violence of the Black Panthers.
B
It caused the Supreme Court to overturn Brown v Board of Education.
C
It caused a refocusing of both political and public attention on the modern Civil Rights Movement.
D
It caused the South to accept African Americans as equals.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The protests gained national attention and eventually ended segregation at city restrooms, drinking fountains and lunch counters and removed barriers to African American employment at city stores.

Detailed explanation-2: -On October 30, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy were arrested and forced to begin serving sentences in Birmingham jail because they led peaceful protests against unconstitutional bans on race mixing in Birmingham in 1963.

Detailed explanation-3: -King spoke to Birmingham’s Black citizens about nonviolence and its methods and appealed for volunteers. When Birmingham’s residents enthusiastically responded, the campaign’s actions expanded to kneel-ins at churches, sit-ins at the library, and a march on the county courthouse to register voters.

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