The Transcendentalist writing which had the most direct influence on African American activists in the 1950s and 1960s was "Two Rivers." Option D is correct.
Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States. It emerged in response to protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time.
Transcendentalism originated from "English and German Romanticism, the Biblical criticism of Johann Gottfried Herder and Friedrich Schleiermacher, the skepticism of David Hume",