As a result of President Truman's insistence that the Democratic Party include a civil rights plank in its 1948 platform,
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- A.substantial numbers of white voters abandoned the Democratic Party, allowing the Republican Party to win the general election that November.
- B.Congress passed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act within the next four years.
- C.African American activists, encouraged that civil rights were becoming part of the national debate, founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- D.Martin Luther King Jr. was encouraged to organize the March on Washington.
- E.many Southern Democrats, or Dixiecrats, left the Democratic convention and formed the States' Rights Democratic Party.
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