Under the leadership of Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam urged blacks to
a. use nonviolent civil disobedience to protest discrimination.
b. separate from white society.
c. seek equality by bringing lawsuits in federal courts.
d. join the 1963 March on Washington

legislative branch:

one of the three branches of government divided between the senate and the house of representatives.

- creates or makes laws

- power to override a veto

executive branch:

one of the three branches of government, headed by the president.

- enforces or carries out laws

- power to veto a bill sent to it by congress

judicial branch:

one of the three branches of government, headed by the chief justice of the supreme court.

- interprets laws

- power to declare laws or actions by the government unconstitutional