Why Did John F

question 40

Multiple Choice

Why did John F. Kennedy fail to support the Civil Rights Movement after the actions taken in 1961 by the Freedom Riders?

• A) He believed that civil rights volunteers were unnecessarily putting their lives at risk when they didn't have to.
• B) He was against giving African Americans equal rights.
• C) He feared alienating his white Democratic Southern base.
• D) His Northern white working-class base feared that African Americans would take jobs away from them.

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