Which of the following best describes both the positive and negative effects of international communism on the African American civil rights movement?
A. Communists played a major role in organizing the earliest civil
rights protests, but their calls for a violent revolution made
Americans even more wary of reform.
B. Communists helped point out American hypocrisy on the issue of
civil rights, but fear of communism made many Americans
resistant to social change of any kind.
C. Communists organized white voters to support civil rights, but
opposition to communist economic plans turned middle-class
African Americans away from the movement.
D. Communists led many of the legal challenges that dismantled
racial segregation, but they refused to acknowledge African
Americans' right to self-defense.