The options of the question are A) their governors decided to accept it. B) civil rights activist led non-violent protests. C) the federal government became involved. D) the state government became imvolved.
The correct answer is C) the federal government became involved.
The University of Alabama and Mississippi were able to integrate because the federal government became involved.
On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy sent troops to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa to end the blockade of Governor George Wallace that prohibited the enrollment of African American students Vivian Malone and James A. Hood. In 1962, President Kennedy sent members of the National Guard to Oxford, Mississipi to reestablish the order after the riots on campus due to the enrollment of James Meredith, a black student.
