Author Question: The interracial coalition that had made possible the passage of major civil rights legislation in ... (Read 37 times)

Deast7027 · **on:** Aug 9, 2018

The interracial coalition that had made possible the passage of major civil rights legislation in the mid-60s:

A) continued to pile up legislative successes for the rest of the decade.
B) was made stronger by the international prestige of Martin Luther King, Jr.
C) splintered later in the decade over issues such as the Vietnam War and the policies developed to implement civil rights reforms.
D) easily absorbed the challenge of black power activism.

Question 2

The first black US senator since Reconstruction was:

A) Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. of New York.
B) John Lewis of Georgia.
C) Edward Brooke of Massachusetts.
D) Carl Stokes of Ohio.