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Charles Sumner: “Is it any less an outrage because the person ejected is simply guilty of a different skin?”

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Is it any less an outrage because the person ejected is simply guilty of a different skin?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner questions whether the injustice of ejection is diminished when the victim is of a different skin color.

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