"You may well ask: 'Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?' You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored."Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963)Question:Of the following, which is a strategy reflected in the passage above that the Civil Rights movement used to obtain racial equality?A.Repudiation of the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1950sB.Violent confrontation to destroy patterns of segregation in the SouthC.Peaceful civil disobedience to obtain social changeD.Alliance with foreign critics of the United States' record of racial discrimination

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