Question

As a result of President Truman's insistence that the Democratic Party include a civil rights plank in its 1948 platform, ____________.

• A. substantial numbers of white voters abandoned the Democratic Party, allowing the Republican Party to win the general election that November.
• B. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act within the next four years.
• C. African American activists, encouraged that civil rights were becoming part of the national debate, founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• D. Martin Luther King Jr. was encouraged to organize the March on Washington.
• E. many Southern Democrats, or Dixiecrats, left the Democratic convention and formed the States' Rights Democratic Party.

Answer 1

The correct option is E many Southern Democrats, or Dixiecrats, left the Democratic convention and formed the States' Rights Democratic Party.

President Truman's insistence that the Democratic Party include a civil rights plank in its 1948 platform many Southern Democrats, or Dixiecrats, left the Democratic convention and formed the States' Rights Democratic Party.