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Charles Sumner: “Separate hotels, separate conveyances, separate theatres, separate schools and institutions of learning and science…”

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Separate hotels, separate conveyances, separate theatres, separate schools and institutions of learning and science, separate churches, and separate cemeteries,--these are the artificial substitutes.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner lists various forms of segregation that serve as inadequate substitutes for true equality.

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