Match Each Description with the Item Below

Match each description with the item below.
-Angela Davis

A) was an openly racist Alabama governor who vowed to protect segregation and later ran for president on the American Independent Party ticket
B) won California's Democratic primary in 1968 but was assassinated that night by Sirhan Sirhan out of resentment for his support of Israel
C) was an African American air force veteran whose efforts to attend a southern university were met with a white mob, resulting in the arrival of National Guard troops
D) was an outspoken activist on racism, sexism, the "prison-industrial complex," gay/lesbian rights, and the Vietnam War
E) wrote the best-selling book The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) and won Arizona in the 1964 presidential race
F) was a Freedom Rider who recruited new members upon hearing about the violence perpetrated toward Freedom Riders in Birmingham
G) was elected vice president under John F. Kennedy in 1960 and later on developed programs that would exceed Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal in scope
H) was secretary of state during the Cuban missile crisis and told reporters to say that the Soviets "blinked first"
I) was an American army commander in Vietnam who focused on waging a war of attrition and using overwhelming firepower
J) became a major spokesman for the Black Muslim movement and expressed the emotions and frustrations of the inner-city African American working poor

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