Which Statement Best Describes the Eisenhower Administration's Role in the Civil

question 53

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes the Eisenhower Administration's role in the civil rights movement?

• A)Eisenhower himself pressured courts to apply Brown v. Board of Education as broadly as possible.
• B)Vice President Richard Nixon called for a law that would make the federal government responsible for registering black voters.
• C)Attorney General Herbert Brownell drafted the 1957 Civil Rights Act that created a Civil Rights Commission.
• D)Secretary of State John Foster Dulles claimed that segregation laws in the United States encouraged newly emerging African states to go Communist.

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