According to the passage, why did Blair hold a sit-in? A. to assist the NAACP’s sit-in campaign that was taking part across the South B. to be part of the first group to demand equality for African Americans

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According to the passage, why did Blair hold a sit-in?

A. to assist the NAACP’s sit-in campaign that was taking part across the South
B. to be part of the first group to demand equality for African Americans
C. to push for segregation because previous efforts had failed
D. to try a new tactic in the struggle to achieve civil rights
The passage:
Blair declared that Negro adults “have been complacent and fearful.” He declared “It is time for someone to wake up and change the situation . . . and we decided to start here.”

–“Negro College Students Sit at Woolworth Lunch Counter,”
Marvin Sykes