Question

Read the passage below and answer the question.

Southern blacks who resisted segregation, particularly those in rural areas, lived in constant fear--fear of their employers, who vowed to fire them; fear of white "citizens' councils," who adopted policies of economic reprisal against demonstrators... (from We Shall Overcome, Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement. www.nps.gov)

Using context clues, what is the meaning of reprisal in the passage?

payment
gain
retaliation
resistance

Answer 1

d?

Answer 2

nvm its c