Answer to Question #100822 in History for Flecha

Question

Which of the following events most directly inspired some activists to set up the organization now known as the NAACP?

A. segregation in the army during World War I
B. the grandfather clause in Alabama and other disenfranchisement methods
C. segregation in the federal government under President Woodrow Wilson
D. a race riot in Springfield, Illinois, in the summer of 1908

Answer 1

D. a race riot in Springfield, Illinois, in the summer of 1908