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"One by one the southern states have legally disfranchised the Afro-American, and since the repeal of the Civil Rights Bill nearly every southern state has passed separate [railroad] car laws with a penalty against their infringement. The race, regardless of advancement, is penned into filthy, stifling partitions cut off from smoking cars."the author of the statement above was A. a scalawag in the 1870sB. an african american journalist in the 1890sC. a white segregationist in the 1910sD. a white southern democrat in the 1930sE. an african american civil rights worker in the 1970s

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