You have been asked to write an essay about the outcomes of the Civil Rights movement. Which of these is the most effective topic sentence for a
paragraph in this essay?
There were two main results from the March on Washington: it gave a national platform to the voices of African-Americans who wanted refor
and it created momentum for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
A group of thirteen Freedom Riders boarded a bus in Washington D.C. and headed for New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 4, 1961.
Barry Goldwater, a senator from Arizona who would later run for President of the United States, said in opposition to the Civil Rights Act:
"You can't legislate morality."
O The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, in Washington, D.C.