In the Years Surrounding the 1963 March on Washington,African Americans

In the years surrounding the 1963 March on Washington,African Americans in the North and West

A) participated in the civil rights movement in the South but found no cause for complaint in their own regions.
B) had become so powerful politically that they were able to abandon direct forms of protest and focused on solving their problems through the ballot box.
C) continued to participate actively in protest movements aimed against de facto segregation and discrimination in the North.
D) played little role in the civil rights movement,which remained an almost exclusively southern phenomenon.