Read the following excerpt from a 1966 speech by John Hulett, a founder of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) in Alabama:
"The Democratic Party of Alabama... has as its emblem a white rooster, and the words 'White Supremacy' written across the top... We felt that we could not register under that party... So we organized ourselves into an independent organization, the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, and our symbol is the black panther... The black panther is an animal that when it is pressured it will move back, but if you pressure it any further, it will turn and wipe out whatever is in front of it."
Based on the excerpt and your knowledge of the African American freedom struggle, which of the following best describes the primary strategy of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization?
- Establishing independent political institutions to achieve self-determination and community control.Cevap
- BAdvocating for violent retaliation and the armed overthrow of the state government.
- COrganizing a mass emigration movement to return to West Africa to escape Southern racial oppression.
- DLobbying federal agencies to integrate local county-level Democratic Party offices.