The third option: noise, silence
Answer:
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham.
Explanation:
It is C. Compound sentence. This is because it is far from simple, and even thought it might seem as a run on sentence, it is not, as run on sentences are sentences connected with a comma, yet this one is connected with a semi-colon, which is a correct way of connecting sentences.
