What Did the Events in the Neighborhood of Watts Reveal

question 26

Multiple Choice

What did the events in the neighborhood of Watts reveal about the state of the civil rights movement in 1965?

• A) The civil rights movement had taken off to such a degree that racism was now limited to the South, and African Americans who had moved to urban areas enjoyed unprecedented full equality.
• B) The civil rights movement had managed to stop the continuation of race riots and relied solely on legal discourse as a means of expressing the needs and demands of African Americans.
• C) The civil rights movement was more united than ever, as all African American organizations came under the direct leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. based on the results of an election.
• D) The civil rights movement had a long way to go in terms of achieving racial equality; however, it had managed to end all violence perpetrated against African Americans by the Ku Klux Klan.
• E) The civil rights movement had begun to fragment, and what came to be called "black power" was competing with the integrationist, nonviolent philosophy of leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr.

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