Which sentence in this excerpt from john lewis's walking with the wind: a memoir of the movement shows that the author was influenced by henry david thoreau?
a. as far as i was concerned, malcolm was not a civil rights leader
b. what malcolm x represented were the seeds of something different, something that would eventually creep into the movement itself and split it apart.
c. to his credit, he preached personal independence and responsibility, self-discipline and self-reliance
d. but he also urged the black man to fight back in self-"by any means necessary," as he famously put it. and i could not accept that.

regarding the law, the 15th amendment was specifically designed thinking in the rights of black free men.

even though ratified on february 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th amendment would not be fully applied for a long time.poll taxes and literacy tests would allow southern states disenfranchise african americans. only in 1965 the voting rights for african americans would be actually able to vote in the south.

in 1965, president johnson signed the voting rights act, which aimed to overcome legal barriers that prevented african americans from voting as it was guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the u.s. constitution.

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