Answer:
The correct answer is <u>A</u>: After undergoing mental preparation and training, activists made considerations about the timing of holiday shopping seasons as well as the mayoral election.
Explanation:
<em>We decided to schedule our direct action program for the Easter season, realizing that except for Christmas, this is the main shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic-withdrawal program would be the by product of direct action, we felt that this would be the best time to bring pressure to bear on the merchants for the needed change.</em>
In this excerpt, King describes how they decided to postpone all the actions until after election day. When they discovered that the Commissioner of Public Safety, Eugene "Bull" Connor, had piled up enough votes to be in the run off, they decided again to postpone action until the day after the run off so that the demonstrations could not be used to cloud the issues.
They also waited to see Mr. Connor defeated, so they endured postponement after postponement. They felt that their direct action program could be delayed no longer.
