yeah, you picked the right one. its the second option
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Answer:
<h3>Gerund</h3>
Explanation:
When the verb form is altered and it serves the same function as a noun in the sentence.
The answer is : a topic is the subject that the author willexplore in a piece of writing.Hope that helps!!!:)
Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation<span>, </span>African Americans in Southern states still inhabited a starkly unequal world of disenfranchisement<span>,
</span>segregation and various forms of oppression<span>, </span>including race-inspired violence.
In the turbulent decade and a half that followed<span>, </span>civil rights activists used nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to bring about change<span>, </span>and the federal government made legislative headway with initiatives such as the Voting Right s Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
Many leaders from within the African American community and beyond rose topominence during the Civil Rights era<span>, </span>including Martin Luther King<span>, </span>Jr.<span>, </span>Rosa Parks<span>, </span>Malcolm X<span>, </span>Andrew Goodman and others.
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