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Shut out from proper accommodation in the cars, the doors of the Senate Chamber opened to him, and there he found that equality which a railroad conductor had denied.
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Sumner illustrates the contrast between the discrimination faced by a Black citizen and the equality found in the Senate, emphasizing the hypocrisy of societal norms.
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