The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

"Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome." — Lyndon B. Johnson, "American Promise" Address to Congress, March 15, 1965

Which immediate event prompted Johnson's address to a joint session of Congress?

A
$The Watts riots in Los Angeles$
B
$Bloody Sunday in Selma, where state troopers attacked marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge$
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C
$The Greensboro sit-ins$
D
$The assassination of Malcolm X$

Explanation

The March 7, 1965 attack on peaceful marchers in Selma created national outrage; LBJ used the moment a week later to demand voting rights legislation.

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