Which of ​The Following Developments Helped Propel the Civil Rights

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Multiple Choice

Which of ​the following developments helped propel the civil rights movement in the 1950s and early 1960s?

• A) ​The unanimous holding in Brown v. Board of Education(1954) that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
• B) ​The federal government forcefully ensuring the integration of Little Rock's Central High School, despite the determined opposition of Arkansas Goveror Orval Faubus and his segregationist supporters.
• C) ​The "sit-in" movement of young African Americans which sought to compel equal treatment of blacks and whites in restaurants, transportation, employment, housing, and voter registration.
• D) ​The formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. to mobilize black churches on behalf of black civil rights.
• E) ​The enthusiastic endorsement of President Eisenhower of the enactment of a strong civil rights bill.

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