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Which best describes the response of authorities in Birmingham, Alabama, to civil rights protests in the 1960s?
They sometimes used violence to resist the protests.
They agreed with the protesters' aims.
They came to accept, over time, the presence of the protesters.
They responded peacefully to the protesters.
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They sometimes used violence to resist the protests.
(Birmingham officials, notably Police Commissioner Bull Connor, used police dogs, fire hoses, mass arrests and other violent tactics against civil rights demonstrators — especially during the 1963 Birmingham campaign.)
(Birmingham officials, notably Police Commissioner Bull Connor, used police dogs, fire hoses, mass arrests and other violent tactics against civil rights demonstrators — especially during the 1963 Birmingham campaign.)
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